# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Record_heat_wave_in_Western_Europe)
title: Record heat wave in Western Europe
uri: Record-heat-wave-in-Western-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Record_heat_wave_in_Western_Europe)
content:
 
<p>
  Western Europe is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/18/europe-heatwave-france-braces-for-record-breaking-temperatures-as-spain-battles-forest-fires">experiencing a record heat wave</a>.
<p>
  The heat wave in Spain is occurring just as baby swifts are too young
  to fly.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/16/spain-heatwave-baby-swifts-die-leaving-nest">It is cooking them in their niches</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(The_book_that_tore_publishing_apart)
title: "The book that tore publishing apart"
uri: The-book-that-tore-publishing-apart
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(The_book_that_tore_publishing_apart)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/18/the-book-that-tore-publishing-apart-harm-has-been-done-and-now-everyones-afraid">On cancellation and persecution of authors, and the grip of
  cancellationist staff in publishing companies</a>.
<p>
  The article is long, and it is only after hundreds of lines that we
  find Clanchy defend using the terms "chocolate skin" and "almond eyes"
  to describe pupils who used those same terms to describe themselves.
  Everyone else quoted has no doubt that those are insulting, but they
  do not try to justify this, and it seems totally arbitrary to me.
<p>
  Chocolate is something delicious and much loved &mdash; I can't imagine it
  as negative.  In the 1980s some black MIT students set up a dorm floor
  to live together in and called it "Chocolate House".  Did they think
  they were insulting themselves?  I think it was an expression of pride.
<p>
  My conclusion is that Clanchy did nothing actually wrong; she was the
  victim of hypersensitivity, magnified by an ideology that calls for
  magnifying any and all hypersensitivity (except when on behalf of
  white males).
<p>
  Mike Pence is a Christian extremist who nonetheless resisted pressure
  to join in overthrowing the US government.  I disagree with his
  politics deeply and broadly, and I would not want to publish a book of
  his writing.  But it is dangerous if books by people with his views
  are generally blocked from publication by people with views more like
  mine who work in the publishing industry.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Haiti's_prisoners_starving_to_death)
title: Haiti's prisoners starving to death
uri: Haiti-s-prisoners-starving-to-death
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Haiti's_prisoners_starving_to_death)
content:
 
<p>
  Prisoners in Haiti are starving to death &mdash; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/23/haiti-prisons-starvation-un-deaths-crisis">prisons have no food to
  give them</a>.

 


title: Corrupter treating his apprentice with unfriendly rivalry
uri: Corrupter-treating-his-apprentice-with-unfriendly-rivalry
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Corrupter_treating_his_apprentice_with_unfriendly_rivalry)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Corrupter_treating_his_apprentice_with_unfriendly_rivalry)

content:
 
<p>
  The corrupter (Trump) is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/21/trump-desantis-2024-president-win">starting to treat his apprentice (Dementis)
  with an unfriendly rivalry</a>.
<p>
  I expect that they will compete for the prize of being the most extremist.

 


title: US supreme court conservatives accused of dismantling church-state separation
uri: US-supreme-court-conservatives-accused-of-dismantling-church-state-sep
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(US_supreme_court_conservatives_accused_of_dismantling_church-state_separation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(US_supreme_court_conservatives_accused_of_dismantling_church-state_separation)

content:
 
<p>
  *[Justice] Sotomayor <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jun/21/sonia-sotomayor-supreme-court-separation-church-state">accuses supreme court conservatives of
  dismantling church-state separation</a>.*

 


title: The wrecker upended election workers' lives
uri: The-wrecker-upended-election-workers-lives
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(The_wrecker_upended_election_workers'_lives)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(The_wrecker_upended_election_workers'_lives)

content:
 
<p>
  *Georgia elections workers describe how [the wrecker] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/21/january-6-hearings-georgia-elections-workers-mother-daughter-testify">upended their
  lives</a>.*

 


title: Facebook tracking pixel on US hospital web sites
uri: Facebook-tracking-pixel-on-US-hospital-web-sites
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Facebook_tracking_pixel_on_US_hospital_web_sites)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Facebook_tracking_pixel_on_US_hospital_web_sites)

content:
 
<p>
  Many US hospitals have <a href="https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/16/facebook-is-receiving-sensitive-medical-information-from-hospital-websites">installed a tracking pixel in their web sites,
  and various actions on those sites send identifying data to Facebook</a>.

 


title: Bogus Johnson intends to break rail workers' strike
uri: Bogus-Johnson-intends-to-break-rail-workers-strike
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_intends_to_break_rail_workers'_strike)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_intends_to_break_rail_workers'_strike)

content:
 
<p>
  Bogus Johnson intends to break the rail workers' strike by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/20/boris-johnson-plan-break-rail-strikes-agency-workers">hiring
  temporary scabs</a>.

 


title: Who can be prosecuted over the corrupter's fake electors scheme
uri: Who-can-be-prosecuted-over-the-corrupter-s-fake-electors-scheme
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Who_can_be_prosecuted_over_the_corrupter's_fake_electors_scheme)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Who_can_be_prosecuted_over_the_corrupter's_fake_electors_scheme)

content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/21/jan-6-hearings-fake-electors-scheme-trump">Who can be prosecuted over the corrupter's fake electors scheme</a>, and how?

 


title: Law to punish offending sentiments of the public
uri: Law-to-punish-offending-sentiments-of-the-public
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Law_to_punish_offending_sentiments_of_the_public)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Law_to_punish_offending_sentiments_of_the_public)

content:
 
<p>
  The state of Victoria (in Australia) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/22/grossly-offensive-conduct-to-become-a-in-victoria">wants to pass a law
  to punish offending the sentiments of the public</a>.
  This is prima facie unjust.
<p>
  When I look at the description of the actions of Richard Pusey,
  presented as an example of what this bill aims to criminalize, I
  simply cannot see what is supposed to call for punishment.  Who did he
  harm, and how?  Nobody, as far as I can see.  The article makes no
  attempt to explain, and that's a sign that it may be wrong.
<p>
  I wonder: if a reporter had been there, and filmed them instead of
  Pusey, is that also intended to be criminalized?  I have no idea.
<p>
  The proposed law is so vague that no one could ever feel safe from
  being prosecuted under it.  People could literally be tried in
  Twitter, as public opinion is shaped to take offense or not.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Don't_travel_to_Malta_if_pregnant)
title: Don't travel to Malta if pregnant
uri: Don-t-travel-to-Malta-if-pregnant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Don't_travel_to_Malta_if_pregnant)
content:
 
<p>
  Don't risk traveling to Malta if you're pregnant &mdash; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jun/22/us-woman-left-traumatised-after-malta-hospital-refuses-life-saving-abortion">a miscarriage there could
  give the state an opportunity to kill you</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Temporarily_eliminating_the_gas_tax)
title: Temporarily eliminating the gas tax
uri: Temporarily-eliminating-the-gas-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Temporarily_eliminating_the_gas_tax)
content:
 
<p>
  Biden is backing a foolish method of helping poor Americans afford expensive
  gasoline: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/22/biden-congress-gas-tax-price-fuel">temporarily eliminating the gasoline tax</a>.
  Making fossil fuels cheaper for their users is the exact opposite of
  what we need to curb <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.
<p>
  The right way to help poor people cope with current high prices for
  gasoline &mdash; and the high cost of living, in general &mdash; is to give them
  some extra money.  They will be able to spend that money on gasoline
  if they need to, but if they conserve gasoline, they will be able to
  spend it on something else.
<p>
  Since both methods require Congressional approval, there is no reason
  at all to choose the foolish method, except that planet-roaster
  congresscritters might prefer it.
<p>
  A similar crisis is affecting Ecuador.  Massive protests against a
  planned increase in fuel prices have shut down he country, and <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/19/death-neoliberalism-ecuador">the
  president is responding with repression</a>
<p>
  The right solution for Ecuador is like the right solution for the US:
  give the poor extra money to cover the extra costs.

 


title: Tories plan to weaken European Court of Human Rights' authority
uri: Tories-plan-to-weaken-European-Court-of-Human-Rights-authority
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Tories_plan_to_weaken_European_Court_of_Human_Rights'_authority)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Tories_plan_to_weaken_European_Court_of_Human_Rights'_authority)

content:
 
<p>
  The Tories plan to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jun/21/uks-new-bill-of-rights-will-curtail-power-of-european-human-rights-court">weaken the authority of the European Court of Human
  Rights to protect people in Britain</a>
  and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jun/21/dominic-raab-bill-of-rights-human-rights-act-replacement-letter">they are rushing to enact this</a>.
<p>
  They <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/22/a-british-bill-of-rights-this-draconian-plan-is-a-rights-removal-bill">call it the "Bill of Rights", but "Bill of Less Rights"
  would fit it better</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Soldiers_spied_on_by_app)
title: Soldiers spied on by app
uri: Soldiers-spied-on-by-app
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Soldiers_spied_on_by_app)
content:
 
<p>
  Yet again, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/21/strava-users-spy-israeli-military-fake-routes-in-bases">an app used by soldiers makes it possible to spy on them</a>.
<p>
  This was due to an unnoticed weakness in a "social" feature designed
  to increase user engagement by enabling a kind of interaction between
  users.  But, at a deeper level, it was caused by using an app designed
  to snoop on its users, who are habituated to being snooped on and not
  in the habit of asking whether an app can do so.
<p>
  Basically, if society is set up to track people in myriad ways, it will
  track secret agents, and abortion patients, in myriad ways.

 


title: Suit filed to overturn the Energy Charter Treaty
uri: Suit-filed-to-overturn-the-Energy-Charter-Treaty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Suit_filed_to_overturn_the_Energy_Charter_Treaty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Suit_filed_to_overturn_the_Energy_Charter_Treaty)

content:
 
<p>
  Young-ish Europeans have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/21/young-people-go-to-european-court-to-stop-treaty-that-aids-fossil-fuel-investors">filed a suit in the European Court of Human
  Rights calling for overturning the Energy Charter Treaty</a>.
<p>
  That is a <a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business-supremacy treaty</a>
  which makes governments pay billions to
  cease promoting fossil fuels.
<p>
  The lawsuit is a long shot, but I don't know of any other method that
  could destroy that treaty.

 


title: Apple developing software to assure Cloudflare the user is not a robot
uri: Apple-developing-software-to-assure-Cloudflare-the-user-is-not-a-robot
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Apple_developing_software_to_assure_Cloudflare_the_user_is_not_a_robot)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Apple_developing_software_to_assure_Cloudflare_the_user_is_not_a_robot)

content:
 
<p>
  Apple is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/21/ios-verification-update-captchas-apple-iphone">developing software to assure Cloudflare that the user is not
  a robot</a>.
  I suspect this is nonfree software that communicates via a secret protocol
  that no one else will be able to implement.
<p>
  I fear that this is a step towards a secret web protocol that will
  exclude everyone that uses a computer whose browser isn't endorsed by
  Apple or Google.

 


title: Labour Party won't allow Corbyn to run again
uri: Labour-Party-won-t-allow-Corbyn-to-run-again
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Labour_Party_won't_allow_Corbyn_to_run_again)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Labour_Party_won't_allow_Corbyn_to_run_again)

content:
 
<p>
  The Labour Party <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/21/shadow-ministers-urge-starmer-start-picking-new-candidate-corbyn-seat-islington-north">won't allow Corbyn to run again for Parliament as a Labour
  candidate</a>.
  It demands he apologize for <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#23_April_2020_(Politics)">a false accusation</a>.
<p>
  He may run as an independent instead.

 


title: Hydrogen safe if we prevent it from leaking into atmosphere
uri: Hydrogen-safe-if-we-prevent-it-from-leaking-into-atmosphere
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Hydrogen_safe_if_we_prevent_it_from_leaking_into_atmosphere)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Hydrogen_safe_if_we_prevent_it_from_leaking_into_atmosphere)

content:
 
<p>
  Hydrogen as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/17/pollutionwatch-hydrogen-power-climate-leaks">a fuel is safe for the climate only if we prevent it from
  leaking into the atmosphere</a>.  It is not a greenhouse gas itself, but
  its presence in the air exacerbates the problems caused by methane and
  ozone.

 


title: Republican says elections were rigged till he won Republican primary
uri: Republican-says-elections-were-rigged-till-he-won-Republican-primary
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Republican_says_elections_were_rigged_till_he_won_Republican_primary)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Republican_says_elections_were_rigged_till_he_won_Republican_primary)

content:
 
<p>
  James Marchant said that Nevada elections were totally rigged, every year.
  He just <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/16/republican-candidates-no-voter-fraud-when-they-win">won a Republican primary election and now presumes that his election
  was honest</a>.

 


title: Greenhouse gas emissions need regulated
uri: Greenhouse-gas-emissions-need-regulated
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Greenhouse_gas_emissions_need_regulated)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Greenhouse_gas_emissions_need_regulated)

content:
 
<p>
  The US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/16/greenhouse-gases-must-be-legally-phased-out-us-scientists-argue">must regulate greenhouse gas emissions and reduce them to zero</a>,
  US scientists argue.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(PIS_fanatics_attacked_Sikh_temple)
title: PIS fanatics attacked Sikh temple
uri: PIS-fanatics-attacked-Sikh-temple
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(PIS_fanatics_attacked_Sikh_temple)
content:
 
<p>
  PIS fanatics <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/18/afghanistan-gunmen-storm-sikh-temple-in-kabul">attacked a Sikh temple in Kabul</a>.  The Taliban tolerate sikhs
  and allow them to have a temple, but PIS has no tolerance.

 


title: Urgent: Call for naming catastrophic storms after fossil fuel businesses
uri: Urgent-Call-for-naming-catastrophic-storms-after-fossil-fuel-business
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_for_naming_catastrophic_storms_after_fossil_fuel_businesses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_for_naming_catastrophic_storms_after_fossil_fuel_businesses)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://act.350.org/sign/name-impacts/?source=em20220614-1-subs-us&akid=208970%2E1151744%2EYp85pQ">call for naming catastrophic storms after fossil fuel
  businesses</a>.
<p>
  This should include the banks and insurance companies that make the fossil
  fuel projects possible.

 


title: Urgent: Take action against laws that punish protesting
uri: Urgent-Take-action-against-laws-that-punish-protesting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Urgent:_Take_action_against_laws_that_punish_protesting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Urgent:_Take_action_against_laws_that_punish_protesting)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Department of Justice to <a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/demand_DOJ_defends_protest/?source=freepress">take action against
state laws that punish protesting</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Green Postal Service Fleet Act
uri: Urgent-Green-Postal-Service-Fleet-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Urgent:_Green_Postal_Service_Fleet_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Urgent:_Green_Postal_Service_Fleet_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your congresscritter to <a href="https://uspirg.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49760">support the Green Postal
Service Fleet Act</a> of 2022, which would require that the
new Postal Service trucks contract be at least 75% clean electric
vehicles.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Bogus penalties imposed by corrupter
uri: Urgent-Bogus-penalties-imposed-by-corrupter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Urgent:_Bogus_penalties_imposed_by_corrupter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Urgent:_Bogus_penalties_imposed_by_corrupter)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Social Security Inspector General Gail Ennis to
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-social-security-inspector-general-gail-ennis-forgive-and-return-the-trump-penalties-to-seniors-now">forgive and return bogus penalties</a> that the corrupter imposed on seniors.

 


title: Urgent: Limit president's emergency powers
uri: Urgent-Limit-president-s-emergency-powers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Urgent:_Limit_president's_emergency_powers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Urgent:_Limit_president's_emergency_powers)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/go/34272?c0=J6_emergency_powers.qjkTmm">limit the president's emergency
powers</a>.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Blight_a_career_for_life)
title: Blight a career for life
uri: Blight-a-career-for-life
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Blight_a_career_for_life)
content:
 
<p>

In the UK, even an official warning from <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> to a teenager can
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jun/21/just-rowdy-16-year-olds-police-caution-blighted-career-teaching-criminal-record-checks">blight a career for life</a>.
<p>
It doesn't surprise me that this happens more often to blacks.
Once there is a repressive system, little details where someone has
discretion are easily warped into systemic racism.
<p>
The UK seems to be egregious in this regard.  In the US, according to
my understanding, even the criminal convictions of minors are usually
erased from their records.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Cutting_works_by_Russian_artists)
title: Cutting works by Russian artists
uri: Cutting-works-by-Russian-artists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Cutting_works_by_Russian_artists)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/21/cutting-works-by-russian-artists-is-stupid-says-pussy-riot-member">Cutting works by Russian artists is "stupid"</a>, says Pussy Riot member.*
<p>
I agree.  We should not punish individual Russians for the crimes of their
government.

 


title: Macron's neoliberal party no longer holds majority
uri: Macron-s-neoliberal-party-no-longer-holds-majority
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Macron's_neoliberal_party_no_longer_holds_majority)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Macron's_neoliberal_party_no_longer_holds_majority)

content:
 
<p>

Macron's neoliberal party has lost greatly in French legislative elections,
and <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/20/neoliberal-macron-loses-parliamentary-majority-melenchon-led-left-surges-france">no longer holds a majority</a>.  He will probably try to make a coalition
with the right-wing Republicans.
<p>
The left alliance has gained sets, but so has the extreme right-wing
(which is not, at least not overtly, as extreme as the US Republicans).

 


title: UK NHS data management subcontracted to spy company
uri: UK-NHS-data-management-subcontracted-to-spy-company
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(UK_NHS_data_management_subcontracted_to_spy_company)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(UK_NHS_data_management_subcontracted_to_spy_company)

content:
 
<p>

The UK plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/21/palantir-concerns-over-data-firm-poised-to-be-operating-system-of-nhs">subcontract the data management for the NHS</a> to a
company.  That's bad enough, but they've chosen Palatir, a spying
company, and want to give it all sorts of data about everyone.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Mask_mandates_and_Covid-19_incidence)
title: Mask mandates and Covid-19 incidence
uri: Mask-mandates-and-Covid-19-incidence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Mask_mandates_and_Covid-19_incidence)
content:
 
<p>

Mask mandates in parts of the US <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01072">substantially reduced the incidence
of Covid-19</a> in those parts, compared with the parts that didn't have
mask mandates.
<p>
We should continue these mandates today.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(EU_plan_to_protect_wildlife)
title: EU plan to protect wildlife
uri: EU-plan-to-protect-wildlife
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(EU_plan_to_protect_wildlife)
content:
 
<p>

The European Union is considering a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/22/eu-legislation-restoration-ecosystems-biodiversity-aoe">massive plan to protect wildlife</a>,
including cutting the use of pesticides by half.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Limit_to_nicotine_in_tobacco)
title: Limit to nicotine in tobacco
uri: Limit-to-nicotine-in-tobacco
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Limit_to_nicotine_in_tobacco)
content:
 
<p>

Biden plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/22/cigarettes-nicotine-levels-white-house-tobacco">limit the amount of nicotine in tobacco</a> sold in the US.
This will make it less strongly addictive and thus help people to quit.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Overworking_Amazon_workers)
title: Overworking Amazon workers
uri: Overworking-Amazon-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Overworking_Amazon_workers)
content:
 
<p>

Bezos intentionally made Amazon drive warehouse workers so hard that
each week 3% quit.  The aim was to make them work <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/22/amazon-workers-shortage-leaked-memo-warehouse">desperately hard</a>.
By 2024, Amazon will have hired and driven away all available workers.
<p>
It could try giving its workers decent pay and working conditions.
Then they might continue working for Amazon.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Voting_based_on_abstract_principles)
title: Voting based on abstract "principles"
uri: Voting-based-on-abstract-principles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Voting_based_on_abstract_principles)
content:
 
<p>

Nowadays, millions of Americans vote for what's bad for them in the
name of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/20/why-do-tens-millions-us-support-economic-system-doesnt-benefit-them">anchorless abstract "principles."</a>
<p>
Americans used to understand their interests, and vote for them.  The
challenge was to convince Americans to care also about the needs of
others (American and not) who are worse off than them, and vote for
the general good.

 


title: Miscalculations caused New Mexico fire
uri: Miscalculations-caused-New-Mexico-fire
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Miscalculations_caused_New_Mexico_fire)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Miscalculations_caused_New_Mexico_fire)

content:
 
<p>

*US Forest Service admits <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/21/new-mexico-wildfire-forest-service-mistakes">"multiple miscalculations"</a> caused New Mexico
 fire.
<p>
Since prescribed burns are the recommended way to prevent devastating
wildfires, I think the crucial question is whether it is possible to carry
out prescribed burns safely nowadays.

 


title: Republicans trying to cut social security benefits
uri: Republicans-trying-to-cut-social-security-benefits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Republicans_trying_to_cut_social_security_benefits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Republicans_trying_to_cut_social_security_benefits)

content:
 
<p>

*Beware of Republicans Trying to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/17/beware-republicans-trying-cut-your-social-security-benefits">Cut Your Social Security Benefits</a>.*
<p>
This is their stated goal, and they re nothing if not persistent.

 


title: Labour Party leader and railroad strike
uri: Labour-Party-leader-and-railroad-strike
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Labour_Party_leader_and_railroad_strike)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Labour_Party_leader_and_railroad_strike)

content:
 
<p>

The Labour Party's leader told his shadow cabinet <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/20/keir-starmer-tells-labour-frontbench-they-should-not-join-rail-strike-pickets">not to support the
railroad strike</a>.
<p>
However, some of them <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/21/labour-frontbenchers-defy-keir-starmer-and-join-rail-strike-pickets">joined the picket lines in defiance of him</a>.
<p>
Starmer is like the so-called "centrist" Democrats in the US.

 


title: Execution of US citizens who joined Ukraine's army
uri: Execution-of-US-citizens-who-joined-Ukraine-s-army
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Execution_of_US_citizens_who_joined_Ukraine's_army)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Execution_of_US_citizens_who_joined_Ukraine's_army)

content:
 
<p>

Putin's sock puppet regime, the Donetsk People's Republic, says it
will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/21/us-volunteer-fighters-captured-in-ukraine-could-face-death-penalty-says-russia">execute US citizens who joined Ukraine's army</a>.
Putin claims to have no control over this.
<p>
The US could respond by bombarding Ukraine's enemies in the Donetsk
People's Republic.  If Putin has no control over that country, he
has no basis to complain.

 


title: Influence in this year's political races
uri: Influence-in-this-year-s-political-races
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Influence_in_this_year's_political_races)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Influence_in_this_year's_political_races)

content:
 
<p>

*   Big donors who supported the insurrection and the election denial that
   inspired it are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/18/big-money-behind-big-lie-insurrection-now-flowing-midterm-election">spending to influence this year's races</a>.*
<p>
*A few [not totally far-gone] Republicans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/21/jan-6-hearings-good-republicans-stopped-trump">stopped Trump</a> &mdash; but his
 threat to democracy isn't over*
<p>
The Republican Party continues to push its <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/22/when-it-comes-to-january-6-republicans-are-entirely-divorced-from-reality">Big Lie</a>, rich donors support it,
and big liars are winning primaries.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Carbon_credits_easy_to_game)
title: Carbon credits easy to game
uri: Carbon-credits-easy-to-game
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Carbon_credits_easy_to_game)
content:
 
<p>

An example shows how the system of carbon credits is leaky and <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/06/12/how-a-conservation-non-profit-made-climate-change-worse-by-not-cutting-down-trees.html">easy to game</a>.
<p>
This is why I say we should have a carbon tax instead.

 


title: Kick the habit of describing warm or hot weather as a good thing
uri: Kick-the-habit-of-describing-warm-or-hot-weather-as-a-good-thing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Kick_the_habit_of_describing_warm_or_hot_weather_as_a_good_thing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Kick_the_habit_of_describing_warm_or_hot_weather_as_a_good_thing)

content:
 
<p>
  We must <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/25/hot-weather-britain-fife-mediterranean-heat-pleasure">kick the habit of describing warm (or hot) weather as a good thing</a>.
  Soon it will be deadly.

 


title: China will decide Russia v. West outcome
uri: China-will-decide-Russia-v-West-outcome
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(China_will_decide_Russia_v._West_outcome)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(China_will_decide_Russia_v._West_outcome)

content:
 
<p>
  John Feffer: *<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/23/putin-face-future-or-final-gasp-past">China will decide the outcome of Russia v. the West</a>.*

 


title: Paramount takes stand against censoring old movies
uri: Paramount-takes-stand-against-censoring-old-movies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Paramount_takes_stand_against_censoring_old_movies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Paramount_takes_stand_against_censoring_old_movies)

content:
 
<p>
  Paramount has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/20/paramount-not-remove-content-eras-different-tastes-sensibilities">taken a stand against censoring old movies based on modern
  compulsory sensitivities</a>.
<p>
  If that were the only issue to judge the company on, I would admire
  it.  However, I expect that <a href="https://www.stallman.org/netflix.html">streaming follows other streaming
  dis-services, imposing DRM, forcing people to identify themselves,
  and snooping on them</a>.  That deserves condemnation and rejection.

 


title: 24/7 warrantless surveillance in Huston
uri: 24-7-warrantless-surveillance-in-Huston
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(24%2F7_warrantless_surveillance_in_Huston)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(24%2F7_warrantless_surveillance_in_Huston)

content:
 
<p>
  *Houston Forces Private Businesses to Install <a href="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/houston_forces_private_businesses_to_install_24_7_citywide_digital_surveillance_cameras_for_warrantless_access_by_police">24/7 Citywide Digital
  Surveillance Cameras for Warrantless Access by Police</a>.*
<p>
  I've called for <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">surveillance cameras like that to be forbidden outright</a>.
  Security cameras should have no network connectivity; they should make
  local recordings and overwrite them a few weeks later.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Global_heating_bleaching_sea_sponges)
title: Global heating bleaching sea sponges
uri: Global-heating-bleaching-sea-sponges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Global_heating_bleaching_sea_sponges)
content:
 
<p>
  Hot ocean bleaches sea sponges, just as it bleaches corals.
  This means <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/23/new-zealand-records-largest-ever-bleaching-of-sea-sponges">global heating could wipe out some species of sponges</a>.

 


title: Cascading bankruptcies or unchecked inflation
uri: Cascading-bankruptcies-or-unchecked-inflation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Cascading_bankruptcies_or_unchecked_inflation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Cascading_bankruptcies_or_unchecked_inflation)

content:
 
<p>
  Yanis Varoufakis: *A half-century long power play, led by corporations, Wall Street, governments, and central banks, has gone badly wrong. As a result, the West's authorities now face an impossible choice: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/22/who-blame-inflation-power-brokers-capitalism">Push conglomerates and even states into cascading bankruptcies, or allow inflation to go unchecked</a>.*

 


title: Reporters without Borders says to have proof journalists were murdered
uri: Reporters-without-Borders-says-to-have-proof-journalists-were-murdered
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Reporters_without_Borders_says_to_have_proof_journalists_were_murdered)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Reporters_without_Borders_says_to_have_proof_journalists_were_murdered)

content:
 
<p>
  Reporters without Borders says it has conclusive proof that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/22/ukrainian-photographer-maksim-levin-executed-cold-blood-russia">Russian
  soldiers murdered journalists Maksim Levin and Oleksiy Chernyshov in
  cold blood</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Debt_from_medical_or_dental_bills)
title: Debt from medical or dental bills
uri: Debt-from-medical-or-dental-bills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Debt_from_medical_or_dental_bills)
content:
 
<p>
  *More than half of U.S. adults report <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/17/barbaric-system-saddles-over-100-million-us-healthcare-debt">going into
  debt because of medical or dental bills over the past five years</a>.*
<p>
  "We've built a [medical] system that is more effective at extracting
  money from people than caring for them."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Canada_regulating_single-use_plastic)
title: Canada regulating single-use plastic
uri: Canada-regulating-single-use-plastic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Canada_regulating_single-use_plastic)
content:
 
<p>
  Canada has published regulations to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/20/canada-ban-single-use-plastics">put an end to most single-use plastic</a>.

 


title: Warlpiri claims power over culture and knowledge
uri: Warlpiri-claims-power-over-culture-and-knowledge
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Warlpiri_claims_power_over_culture_and_knowledge)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Warlpiri_claims_power_over_culture_and_knowledge)

content:
 
<p>
  Some indigenous groups <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/19/final-resting-place-sacred-indigenous-objects-returned-to-australia-from-us-university">claim the power to "make decisions about their
  cultural heritage"</a> &mdash; a power that exceeds even what Disney claims.
This includes demanding &mdash; as if by some sort of right &mdash; the return
of objects they once made, independent of how anyone else acquired them.
<p>
  Such power over others' culture and knowledge is an injustice in
  Disney hands, and it is an injustice in Warlpiri hands.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(US_needs_social_housing)
title: US needs social housing
uri: US-needs-social-housing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(US_needs_social_housing)
content:
 
<p>
*Rent Too High? <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2022/06/16/rent-too-high-us-needs-european-style-social-housing">US Needs European-Style Social Housing</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Internet_users'_safety_post-Roe)
title: Internet users' safety "post-Roe"
uri: Internet-users-safety-post-Roe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Internet_users'_safety_post-Roe)
content:
 
<p>
  Lauren Weinstein: *<a href="https://lauren.vortex.com/2022/06/18/internet-users-safety-in-a-post-roe-world">Internet Users' Safety in a Post-Roe World</a>.*
<p>
  He is coming towards what I've said since 2013: the only reliable way
  to prevent data from being misused is not to collect it.
<p>
  I suggest that states begin legislating to allow people to get
  abortions, birth control and prenatal care under a pseudonym,
  and with other data altered to block identification.
  
 


title: Grenoble cannot authorize swimmers to wear full-body swimsuits
uri: Grenoble-cannot-authorize-swimmers-to-wear-full-body-swimsuits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Grenoble_cannot_authorize_swimmers_to_wear_full-body_swimsuits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Grenoble_cannot_authorize_swimmers_to_wear_full-body_swimsuits)

content:
 
<p>
  A French court ruled that Grenoble <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/21/french-court-overturns-grenoble-decision-to-allow-burkinis-france">cannot authorize swimmers to wear
  full-body swimsuits in the municipal pool</a>.
<p>
  I cannot imagine any valid reason to limit how much clothing people
  can wear at the pool, beyond the minimum.

 


title: Covid-19 surge in multiple European countries
uri: Covid-19-surge-in-multiple-European-countries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Covid-19_surge_in_multiple_European_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Covid-19_surge_in_multiple_European_countries)

content:
 
<p>
  *Multiple European countries are experiencing a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/21/covid-surges-europe-ba4-ba5-cases">significant surge in new
  Covid-19 infections</a>.*
<p>
  They have systematically let their guard down.  Vaccination will keep
  the rate of deaths down, but it is no guarantee against lasting
  incapacitation by long Covid.
<p>
  You need to use precautions with your friends as well as with
  strangers.  Overall, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(covid_risks_friends)">the chance of catching Covid from friends is
  greater than that of catching it from strangers</a>.
  You probably
  encounter far more strangers than friends, but you spend much more
  time, and in closer conditions, with each friend.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Global_heading_causing_disasters)
title: Global heading causing disasters
uri: Global-heading-causing-disasters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Global_heading_causing_disasters)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> is producing extreme weather events so often that, by
  chance, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/17/compound-extremes-natural-disasters-us-west">sometimes two of them combine to produce a local disaster</a>.
  That just happened in Yellowstone National Park, where it permanently
  changed the course of the Yellowstone River.
<p>
  "Recovery could take years", but the concept of "recovery" presumes
  that the weather system will be stable enough that there is a new
  "normal" to be found.  That may not happen &mdash; <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jul-oct.html#13_August_2020_(Global_heating_is_accelerating)">global heating is
  accelerating</a>.
<p>
  The flooding <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/16/yellowstone-floods-water-supply-billings-montana">shut down the water processing of the city of Billings,
  which almost ran out of drinking water</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(mick_lynch_labour_rmt_union_boss)
title: The railroad strike has brought union leader Mick Lynch to public prominence
uri: The-railroad-strike-has-brought-union-leader-Mick-Lynch-to-public-prom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(mick_lynch_labour_rmt_union_boss)
content:
 
<p>
The railroad strike has brought union leader Mick Lynch to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/23/mick-lynch-media-star-labour-rmt-leader-union-boss">public
prominence</a>
<p>
 -- breaking through the lid kept on by the de-Corbynated
Labour Party.
<p>
Former union leader Arthur Scargill is picketing again at age 84,
and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/23/arthur-scargill-joins-rail-picket-line-sheffield-strike">damns the Labour leadership.</a>

 


uri: What-should-we-say-about-a-high-school-student-who-posted-nude-photos
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(new_york_magazine_high_school_student)

title:
 What should we say about a high school student who posted nude photos
of his girlfriend without her permission? 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(new_york_magazine_high_school_student)

content:
 
<p>
What should we say about a high school student who posted nude photos
of his 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/23/new-york-magazine-article-canceled-at-17">girlfriend without her permission?</a>
<p>
I decided many years ago not to make, or have, a nude photo of any
girlfriend or lover.  Why so?  There's no risk that I would ever
publish them, but there would always be a risk that somehow or other
someone else would get per hands on them and publish them.  Mo nude
photo, no risk it will leak.
<p>
I think society would be better off if we all got used to public
nudity, but I wouldn't want to cause anyone to involuntarily become a
pioneer in bringing that about.

 


title: Privacy and justice are good reasons for rejecting all-digital public services
uri: Privacy-and-justice-are-good-reasons-for-rejecting-all-digital-public
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(privacy_digital_exclusion_theguardian_view)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(privacy_digital_exclusion_theguardian_view)

content:
 
<p>
Privacy and justice are good reasons for rejecting all-digital public
services; however, for those who can't understand that issue, there are
other reasons -- concern for people who find it too 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/23/the-guardian-view-on-digital-exclusion-online-must-not-be-the-only-option">hard to use the shiny new unjust systems.</a>
<p>
Paper train tickets are crucial for freedom because they make
anonymous train travel possible.  Paying for a parking lot without a
snoop-phone is one of the things needed to make anonymous car travel
possible, though that also requires a government which 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/15/mass-electronic-surveillance-uk-app-lockdown-download">doesn't try
to track everyone's car travel.</a>

 


title: The US Supreme Court is embarked on a radical right-wing overturning of long-established laws.
uri: The-US-Supreme-Court-is-embarked-on-a-radical-right-wing-overturning-o
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(supreme_court_reactions_new_york_ruling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(supreme_court_reactions_new_york_ruling)

content:
 
<p>
The US Supreme Court is embarked on a radical right-wing overturning
of long-established laws.  Now it has effectively 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jun/23/new-york-gun-ruling-supreme-court-reactions-democrats-republicans">abolished state gun
permit laws.</a>
<p>
Even in the "wild west", people were not allowed to 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/07/23/1112703/-De-mythologizing-the-Wild-West-gun-laws-were-actually-stricter-then-than-now">carry guns around
in town without authorization.</a>
<p>
I wonder whether this ruling allows states to require people to study
and get tested for a gun license, much as they have to get licenses to
drive.
<p>
I saw a petition to impeach Justice Thomas. This would be a good
thing to do, but the Republicans in the Senate will defend him
from punishment no matter what he does, 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-house-and-senate-democrats-must-initiate-an-investigation-into-clarence-thomass-unethical-behavior">just as they defended the
corrupter from impeachment</a>
<p>
after his attempted coup.
<p>
It is ironic that the Supreme Court members who voted for this, and
their families, have just recently been granted additional security
protection.  They knew that they were about to exacerbate the problem,
but they themselves won't have to face the consequences along with the
rest of us.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(rome_escooter_problems)
title: E-scooters for rent in Rome have become a practical issue
uri: E-scooters-for-rent-in-Rome-have-become-a-practical-issue
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(rome_escooter_problems)
content:
 
<p>
E-scooters for rent in Rome have become a practical 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/rome-scooter-problems/index.html">nuisance and cause
of accidents.</a>
<p>
They are also a system of general surveillance, since the only way to
rent one is with a snoop-phone and the only way to pay is with a
credit card.  I might perhaps use a private e-scooter, but I would
never rent one through the systems they actually use.

 


title: The GEICO STD story is the new McDonald's Hot Coffee story
uri: The-GEICO-STD-story-is-the-new-McDonald-s-Hot-Coffee-story
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(geico_disease_car_insurance_arbitration)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(geico_disease_car_insurance_arbitration)

content:
 
<p>
We were invited to find it absurd that GEICO was required to pay
damages to someone who caught a disease via sex in an insured car.
<p>
In fact, GEICO was getting deservedly punished for 
<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/12/hot-coffee/#mcgeico">compelling its
customers to use arbitration.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(supreme_court_miranda_rights)
title: In 'Dangerous Decision,' Supreme Court Guts Protection of Miranda Right
uri: In-Dangerous-Decision-Supreme-Court-Guts-Protection-of-Miranda-Righ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(supreme_court_miranda_rights)
content:
 
<p>The Supreme Court undermined enforcement of the requirement for
Miranda warnings.  In many situations, omitting a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/23/dangerous-decision-supreme-court-guts-protection-miranda-rights">warning can no
longer be punished.</a>
<p>
Isn't it odd how right-wing politicians habitually condemn "big
government" except when an agent of the government (such as a cop)
treats you unjustly?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(to_indict_trump_evidence)
title: Three crimes that the wrecker could be charged with based on known evidence.
uri: Three-crimes-that-the-wrecker-could-be-charged-with-based-on-known-evi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(to_indict_trump_evidence)
content:
 
<p>
Three crimes that the wrecker could be charged 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/23/there-more-enough-evidence-indict-trump">with based on known
evidence.</a>
<p>
He told Justice Department officials, "Just say that the election was
corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen,"
according to the 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/trump-quote-jan-6-hearings-day-5/index.html">testimony of one of those officials.</a>
<p>
Six congresscritters and one appointed official who asked the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/23/house-jan-6-committee-reveals-seditious-six-gop-lawmakers-who-sought-trump-pardons">corrupter
for a blanket pardon after Jan 6.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(2a_supreme_court_ny_test)
title: The Supreme Court made a ruling that prohibits nearly all sorts of gun control law.
uri: The-Supreme-Court-made-a-ruling-that-prohibits-nearly-all-sorts-of-gun
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(2a_supreme_court_ny_test)
content:
 
<p>
The Supreme Court made a ruling that prohibits nearly all 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/second-amendment-gun-rights-supreme-court-new-york-test/index.html">sorts of gun
control law.</a>
<p>
I wonder what sort of "historic traditions" are allowed.  The New York
State gun permit law, which has been a tradition for 100 years, is
clearly not considered historic enough.  How old does a tradition have
to be?

 


title: (satire) *Christian Parents Encourage Child To Save Self For Church Leader.
uri: (satire)-Christian-Parents-Encourage-Child-To-Save-Self-For-Church-Le
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_((Satire)_christian_parents_encourage_child_church_leader)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_((Satire)_christian_parents_encourage_child_church_leader)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Christian Parents Encourage Child 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/christian-parents-encourage-child-to-save-self-for-chur-1849023082">To Save Self For Church
Leader.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_((Satire)_mass_shooting_age_21)
title: (satire) *Experts Recommend Raising Minimum Age For Committing Mass Shootings To 21.*
uri: (satire)-Experts-Recommend-Raising-Minimum-Age-For-Committing-Mass-Sh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_((Satire)_mass_shooting_age_21)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Experts Recommend Raising Minimum Age For 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/experts-recommend-raising-minimum-age-for-committing-ma-1849094237">Committing Mass
Shootings To 21.</a>*

 


title: (satire) *New Footage Shows Uvalde Police Rushing Into School To Take Selfies With Shooter.*
uri: (satire)-New-Footage-Shows-Uvalde-Police-Rushing-Into-School-To-Take
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_((Satire)_Uvalde_Police_Selfie_With_Shooter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_((Satire)_Uvalde_Police_Selfie_With_Shooter)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *New Footage Shows Uvalde Police 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/new-footage-shows-uvalde-police-rushing-into-school-to-1849094245">Rushing Into School To Take
Selfies With Shooter.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Russia_ukraine_war_news_and_analysis)
uri: Oleh-Bondarenko-survived-the-Putin-forces-torture-and-murder-camp-wi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Russia_ukraine_war_news_and_analysis)
title:
 Oleh Bondarenko survived the Putin forces' torture and murder camp,
with various permanent injuries from beatings. 

content:
 
<p>
Oleh Bondarenko survived the Putin forces' torture and murder camp,
with various permanent injuries from beatings. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/25/what-happened-in-the-russia-ukraine-war-this-week-catch-up-with-the-must-read-news-and-analysis">He survived because
the soldiers thought they had beaten him to death.</a>
<p>
He said they murdered captives every day.
<p>
Putin forces soldiers killed other civilians by shooting their cars as
they tried to flee.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(biden_condemns_supreme_court)
title: Biden condemns US supreme court's "tragic error" of overturning Roe v Wade.
uri: Biden-condemns-US-supreme-court-s-tragic-error-of-overturning-Roe-v
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(biden_condemns_supreme_court)
content:
 
<p>
*Biden condemns US supreme court's "tragic error" of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/24/biden-condemns-supreme-court-dobbs-jackson">overturning Roe v Wade.</a>*
<p>
The loss of abortion rights in many US states will mean death for many
women. new and previous children growing up in life-stunting poverty,
and more population growth which implies a bigger 
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/06/24/roe-v-wade-overturn-economic-impact/">global disaster in the future.</a>
<p>
Right-wing fanatics plan to hound anyone who comes in contact with
providing abortions, 
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/06/24/roe-anti-abortion-enforcement-criminalize/">even across state lines if they can.</a>

 


title: Our global food supply is at risk when high gas prices limit the creation of fertilizer.
uri: Our-global-food-supply-is-at-risk-when-high-gas-prices-limit-the-creat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(global_food_supply_at_risk_fertiliser)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(global_food_supply_at_risk_fertiliser)

content:
 
<p>
*Our global food supply is at risk when high gas prices limit 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/25/our-global-food-supply-is-at-risk-when-high-gas-prices-limit-the-creation-of-fertiliser">the creation of
fertilizer.</a>*
<p>
We should not draw the direct and simple conclusion that the article
leads to.  Keeping fossil fuel cheap means global disaster.  That is
not a solution, that is the worst possible problem.  Fossil fuels
must be more expensive ten years from now.
<p>
George Monbiot writes about regenerative farming, that can produce
good yields with less fertilizer (and perhaps with more humans working
the farms).  I have no expertise on that, and I don't know how well
it can actually work, but it would be good to organize to give it a try.
<p>
Meanwhile, if making fertilizer pushes the world into
unsustainability, we can certainly head in the right direction by (1)
eating less meat (a large fraction of grain production is for meat)
and (2) having fewer babies.
<p>
First, we could 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/24/us-to-proceed-with-production-of-biofuels-despite-global-food-crisis">end growing grain for biofuel.</a>

 


title: Gorsuch and Kavanaugh in overturn of Roe v Wade
uri: Gorsuch-and-Kavanaugh-in-overturn-of-Roe-v-Wade
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Gorsuch_and_Kavanaugh_in_overturn_of_Roe_v_Wade)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Gorsuch_and_Kavanaugh_in_overturn_of_Roe_v_Wade)

content:
 
<p>

Senator Collins and Senator Manchin, who voted to confirm Gorsuch and
Kavanaugh, claimed they <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/25/gorsuch-kavanaugh-misled-senators-roe-v-wade">promised they wouldn't overturn Roe v Wade</a>.
Likewise Senator Murkowski.
<p>
If the senators mean this sincerely, they should demonstrate their
sincerity by helping to undo their foolish and deadly mistake: by
voting to expand the Supreme Court.

 


title: Tories' response to UK railroad workers' strike
uri: Tories-response-to-UK-railroad-workers-strike
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Tories'_response_to_UK_railroad_workers'_strike)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Tories'_response_to_UK_railroad_workers'_strike)

content:
 
<p>

The Tories' response to the UK railroad workers' strike is to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/23/rail-strikes-tories-agency-workers-rights">facilitate
breaking any and all strikes in the future</a>.
<p>
You've got to expect that a neoliberal party will try to keep wages down.
It's a shame that Labour has joined that side.

 


title: Fight to stop states banning abortion pill
uri: Fight-to-stop-states-banning-abortion-pill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Fight_to_stop_states_banning_abortion_pill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Fight_to_stop_states_banning_abortion_pill)

content:
 
<p>

*Biden administration signals fight to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/25/biden-administration-signals-fight-stop-states-banning-abortion-pill-roe-v-wadex">stop states banning abortion pill</a>.*

 


title: Congresscritters who asked for pardons
uri: Congresscritters-who-asked-for-pardons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Congresscritters_who_asked_for_pardons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Congresscritters_who_asked_for_pardons)

content:
 
<p>

Congresscritters who asked the corrupter for pardons <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/26/capitol-attack-hearings-republicans-sought-pardons">recognized that
their efforts</a> to overturn the election might be criminal.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Moving_Labour_Party_to_the_center)
title: Moving Labour Party to the "center"
uri: Moving-Labour-Party-to-the-center
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Moving_Labour_Party_to_the_center)
content:
 
<p>

Starmer boasts of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/26/labour-has-now-claimed-the-centre-ground-and-has-shown-it-can-win">moving the Labour Party to the "center"</a>.
He claims it will win because people hate the Tories.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/26/conservatives-alarm-grows-over-threat-of-tactical-voting-in-safe-seats">They do</a>,
and it may.  But the emphasis on economic growth is explicit rejection of
the goal of redistributing the wealth that the rich have taken away
from the rest.  That's what it means to be a "centrist" party &mdash; don't
make the rich any less rich.
<p>
No wonder Starmer opposes unions when they show a willingness to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/26/if-rmt-wins-other-workers-will-push-back-quite-right">do more than piss and moan</a>.
<p>
We will never get a big change for the better from Centrist Labour.
It will be more <a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">Tony B'liar</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Cause_of_crisis_of_the_NHS)
title: Cause of crisis of the NHS
uri: Cause-of-crisis-of-the-NHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Cause_of_crisis_of_the_NHS)
content:
 
<p>

NHS doctors insist that the crisis of the NHS is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/26/nhs-crisis-caused-by-tory-underfunding-not-covid-say-doctors">caused by Tory
underfunding</a>, not by Covid-19.
<p>
This makes sense, since the problems developed in a slow and steady fashion
over ten years, and have been reported on across that time.
<!--
[Two pol notes, one from the early years and another from the late 2010a]
  -->

 


title: Safety for ships exporting grain from Ukraine
uri: Safety-for-ships-exporting-grain-from-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Safety_for_ships_exporting_grain_from_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Safety_for_ships_exporting_grain_from_Ukraine)

content:
 
<p>

Simon Tisdell argues that NATO <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/26/timid-west-ukraine-line-in-sea-break-vladimir-putin-criminal-blockade">could provide safety</a> for ships
exporting grain from Ukraine.
Even supposing the mines have been removed, I am not convinced this
will work.
<p>
Russian missiles continue to hit nonmilitary targets in Odessa.  They
can surely hit the port area.  Russia too has anti-ship missiles.
They can hit freighters carrying grain, as well as their escorts.  Who
wants to risk a ship worth millions of dollars to find out whether
Russia will sink it?
<p>
If Ukraine starts sinking oil tankers traveling empty to Novorossiysk
to pick up Russian export oil, this would end Putin's cocky contempt
for sanctions.  It might also convince Putin to make an agreement to
allow shipping to pass unobstructed to both Ukraine and Russia.  He
would carry out the agreement, since attacking Ukraine's shipping
would bring retaliation in kind.

 


title: Marijuana and cocaine use by menial UK workers
uri: Marijuana-and-cocaine-use-by-menial-UK-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Marijuana_and_cocaine_use_by_menial_UK_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Marijuana_and_cocaine_use_by_menial_UK_workers)

content:
 
<p>

Menial workers in the UK are driven so hard that they <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jun/25/cocaine-class-everyone-in-this-town-takes-drugs-all-the-time">need
marijuana and cocaine</a> to deal with the pain.  Some of them have
to thread their lives around the constant danger of a drug test.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Reversal_of_Roe_v_Wade)
title: Reversal of Roe v Wade
uri: Reversal-of-Roe-v-Wade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Reversal_of_Roe_v_Wade)
content:
 
<p>

The reversal of Roe v Wade was the first application of a general
decision by the Supreme Court to require <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/25/supreme-courts-elimination-abortion-rights-attack-living-constitution">less justification to reverse
some kinds of precedents</a>.
<p>
This will put many rights in danger &mdash; any right that was not accepted
and ruled on 150 years ago.

 


title: Gay Pride march cancelled after shooting
uri: Gay-Pride-march-cancelled-after-shooting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Gay_Pride_march_cancelled_after_shooting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Gay_Pride_march_cancelled_after_shooting)

content:
 
<p>

After a shooting in a gay bar, the city of Oslo <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/25/hate-crime-oslo-pride-parade-canceled-after-deadly-shooting-gay-bar">cancelled the Gay Pride
march</a> scheduled for the following day.
<p>
I think the cancellation was a mistake in strategy, because it magnifies
the power of terrorists.  To go on as planned would be a display of
strength.

 


title: Driver of car ran into abortion rights protesters
uri: Driver-of-car-ran-into-abortion-rights-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Driver_of_car_ran_into_abortion_rights_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Driver_of_car_ran_into_abortion_rights_protesters)

content:
 
<p>

A car driver went out of his way to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/25/motorist-tried-murder-abortion-rights-advocates-iowa-protest-witnesses-say">run into abortion rights
protesters</a>.  He was obviously using his car as a weapon, but the thugs
let him go.
<p>
Iowa, where that took place, passed a law to shield drivers who attack
protesters with their cars from lawsuits from those they hit.
Nominally, that shield is limited to drivers "exercising due care,"
but it will serve as an excuse for antiabortionist juries to endorse
injuring people.
<p>
However, that law doesn't affect criminal prosecution.  The driver
committed attempted murder.  Is there any way to make the state
prosecute this crime?
<p>
*The anti-abortion movement has an <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anti-abortion-violence-murdered-families-roe-v-wade_n_62a37f2ae4b0cdccbe4fa969">extensive history of violence</a>*
in the name of "protecting life". <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/24/rise-fascism-feeding-meaner-more-violent-united-states">Violence to intimidate opposition</a> is a standard part of right-wing extremism, and we see plenty of it now from US extremists (Republicans).

 


title: Workers on fishing boats almost slaves
uri: Workers-on-fishing-boats-almost-slaves
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Workers_on_fishing_boats_almost_slaves)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Workers_on_fishing_boats_almost_slaves)

content:
 
<p>

UK laws turn foreign workers on fishing boats <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/20/migrant-crew-uk-fishing-boats-abuse-exploitation-danger">almost into slaves</a>,
since they are not allowed to come into port with the boat.
If they complain about illegal treatment, they get fired, and that
means they get deported.

 


title: Ukraine banning import of printed books written in Russian
uri: Ukraine-banning-import-of-printed-books-written-in-Russian
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Ukraine_banning_import_of_printed_books_written_in_Russian)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Ukraine_banning_import_of_printed_books_written_in_Russian)

content:
 
<p>

Ukraine's legislature has passed a law to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/20/ukraine-restricts-russian-books-and-music-in-latest-step-of-derussification">ban the importation of
printed books written in Russian</a>.  It will also ban the printing in Ukraine
of writing by post-1991 Russians. Both of these restrictions are harmful and wrong.
<p>
The most popular or important classic books in Russian may be printed
in Ukraine, but a far larger number of important works of literature,
science or scholarship will not be available to Ukrainians unless they
leave the country.  Even if we consider only the works of practical
use, such as textbooks and reference books, Ukraine with its smaller
population will not have produced comparable replacements in Ukrainian.
<p>
The "Culture" minister showed his lack of appreciation of literature
by referring to books as "creative product" and <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content">"content."</a>
<p>
In addition to being wrong, these laws are also strategically foolish.
There are millions of Ukrainians whose primary language is Russian.
Putin claims that they support his invasion, but most of them don't.
Thousands of them, starting with President Zelenskyy, are fighting for
Ukraine.  Ukraine must treat them as the equal of other Ukrainians,

 


title: Calls for supreme court justices to be impeached
uri: Calls-for-supreme-court-justices-to-be-impeached
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Calls_for_supreme_court_justices_to_be_impeached)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Calls_for_supreme_court_justices_to_be_impeached)

content:
 
<p>

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-supreme-court-justices-impeach-kavanaugh-gorsuch-thomas">calls for supreme court justices to be impeached</a>.
<p>
I would agree, except that we know it would be futile.
Republican senators will not vote to remove them from office.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Our_iceberg_is_not_far_away)
title: Our iceberg is not far away
uri: Our-iceberg-is-not-far-away
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Our_iceberg_is_not_far_away)
content:
 
<p>

*We Americans are dancing on the Titanic. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/27/we-americans-are-dancing-on-the-titanic-our-iceberg-is-not-far-away">Our iceberg is not far away</a>.*
<p>
I have to respond, "Which one?"  There is the right-wing extemists
iceberg, the China's world domination iceberg, and behind them the
<a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> disaster iceberg that can sink the US, China, and the rest
of human civilization at the same time.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(US_court_upholds_Anti-BDS_law)
title: US court upholds Anti-BDS law
uri: US-court-upholds-Anti-BDS-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(US_court_upholds_Anti-BDS_law)
content:
 
<p>
  A US appeals court sustained a state law <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/23/rights-advocates-decry-very-frightening-court-ruling-upholding-anti-bds-law">penalizing contractors that won't
  condemn the Palestinian Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions campaign</a>.

 


title: Poverty and economic harm from banning abortion
uri: Poverty-and-economic-harm-from-banning-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Poverty_and_economic_harm_from_banning_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Poverty_and_economic_harm_from_banning_abortion)

content:
 
<p>
  In addition to the personal suffering, banning abortion will <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/economy/economic-impact-roe-wade-overturn/index.html">spread
  poverty and cause significant economic harm to the US</a>.

 


title: US returns prisoner they had no grounds to hold
uri: US-returns-prisoner-they-had-no-grounds-to-hold
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(US_returns_prisoner_they_had_no_grounds_to_hold)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(US_returns_prisoner_they_had_no_grounds_to_hold)

content:
 
<p>
  The US has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/politics/gitmo-prisoner-afghanistan/index.html">returned a Guantanamo prisoner to Afghanistan after a court
  ruled that the US had no grounds to hold him prisoner</a>.
<p>
  That is a significant step towards bringing rule of law to the
  Guantanamo prisoner, but it does not get all the way there.
  The US must punish the torturers, and hold no one prisoner without
  a true, fair trial.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_((Satire)_Shaming_young_unwed_mothers)
title: (Satire) Shaming young unwed mothers
uri: (Satire)-Shaming-young-unwed-mothers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_((Satire)_Shaming_young_unwed_mothers)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Anti-Abortion Advocate <a href="https://www.theonion.com/anti-abortion-advocate-excitedly-switches-focus-to-sham-1849106094">Excitedly Switches Focus To Shaming
  Young Unwed Mothers</a>.*

 


title: Coup-resisting Republicans are still enemies of our liberty
uri: Coup-resisting-Republicans-are-still-enemies-of-our-liberty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Coup-resisting_Republicans_are_still_enemies_of_our_liberty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Coup-resisting_Republicans_are_still_enemies_of_our_liberty)

content:
 
<p>
  Don't assume that coup-resisting Republicans are not <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/24/pence-we-must-not-rest-until-abortion-is-outlawed-in-every-state-00042315">the enemies of
  our liberty</a>.

 


title: Working from home may reduce London office space demand
uri: Working-from-home-may-reduce-London-office-space-demand
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Working_from_home_may_reduce_London_office_space_demand)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Working_from_home_may_reduce_London_office_space_demand)

content:
 
<p>
  Continued working from home (at least part time) may <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/24/home-working-make-fifth-london-office-space-redundant">reduce the demand
  for office space in London by 20%</a>.
  If that happens, converting some of that space into residences could
  be extremely important to provide enough homes.
<p>
  This will surely not be limited to London.  I wonder whether we can get
  some more housing in Boston this way.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_((Satire)_Centrists_and_Roe_v._Wade)
title: (Satire) Centrists and Roe v. Wade
uri: (Satire)-Centrists-and-Roe-v-Wade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_((Satire)_Centrists_and_Roe_v._Wade)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Nation's Centrists Stubbornly Double Down On Claim That <a href="https://www.theonion.com/nation-s-centrists-stubbornly-double-down-on-claim-that-1849106211">Roe v. Wade Not At Risk</a>.*

 


title: California joined Connecticut in shielding abortion providers and patients
uri: California-joined-Connecticut-in-shielding-abortion-providers-and-pati
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(California_joined_Connecticut_in_shielding_abortion_providers_and_patients)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(California_joined_Connecticut_in_shielding_abortion_providers_and_patients)

content:
 
<p>
  California has joined Connecticut in passing a law to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/06/23/california-abortion-shield-providers-texas-roe">shield abortion
  providers and patients from lawsuits in other states</a>.
<p>
  This is a useful partial step, but a woman that wants to travel from
  Texas to California for an abortion will need transport in Texas to
  reach California.  California laws can't shield a person or company in
  Texas that provides that transport.
<p>
  Also, if a state makes it a crime to travel to California (for
  instance) for an abortion, I don't think California can protect those
  women from prosecution if they returning home afterwards.
<p>
  I wonder what the Supreme Court would say about the constitutionality
  of a law in state A that penalizes people for traveling to state B and
  doing something which is lawful in state B.  A reasonable Supreme
  Court would say that one state can't impose its own jurisdiction on
  other states.  But with the Supreme Court under the control of
  religious fanatics, ready to tear up all manner of precedents to get
  their way, I fear that they will construct some excuse to "bless" such
  laws.

 


title: Report on Wendell Berry's condemnation of "free trade"
uri: Report-on-Wendell-Berry-s-condemnation-of-free-trade
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Report_on_Wendell_Berry's_condemnation_of_free_trade)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Report_on_Wendell_Berry's_condemnation_of_free_trade)

content:
 
<p>
  Ralph Nader <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/25/continuing-damages-corporate-managed-so-called-free-trade">reports on Wendell Berry's condemnation of "free trade"</a>.
<p>
  To quote Berry, "Unsurprisingly, among people who wish to preserve
  things other than money -– for instance, every region’s native
  capacity to produce essential goods -– there is a growing perception
  that the global "free market" economy is inherently an enemy to the
  natural world, to human health and freedom to industrial workers, and
  to farmers and others in the land-use economies; and, furthermore,
  that it is inherently an enemy to good work and good economic
  practice."

 


title: Food transportation causes 6% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide
uri: Food-transportation-causes-6-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-worldwide
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Food_transportation_causes_6%25_of_greenhouse_gas_emissions_worldwide)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Food_transportation_causes_6%25_of_greenhouse_gas_emissions_worldwide)

content:
 
<p>
  Transportation of food causes <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/21/climate-impact-of-food-miles-three-times-greater-than-previously-believed-study-finds">6% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions</a>.

 


title: Heat in Phoenix kills homeless people
uri: Heat-in-Phoenix-kills-homeless-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Heat_in_Phoenix_kills_homeless_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Heat_in_Phoenix_kills_homeless_people)

content:
 
<p>
  The heat in Phoenix nowadays <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/20/phoenix-extreme-heat-housing-crisis">kills homeless people</a>.

 


title: Israel displacing Palestinians by stealth
uri: Israel-displacing-Palestinians-by-stealth
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Israel_displacing_Palestinians_by_stealth)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Israel_displacing_Palestinians_by_stealth)

content:
 
<p>
  *Israeli settler shepherds <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/20/land-beyond-road-forbidden-israeli-settler-shepherds-displacing-palestinians">displacing Palestinians by stealth</a>.*

 


title: Right-wing extremists thinking about reversing more past decisions
uri: Right-wing-extremists-thinking-about-reversing-more-past-decisions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Right-wing_extremists_thinking_about_reversing_more_past_decisions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Right-wing_extremists_thinking_about_reversing_more_past_decisions)

content:
 
<p>
  The right-wing extremists on the Supreme Court are thinking about
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/clarence-thomas-roe-gay-marriage-contraception-lgbtq">reversing the past decisions that legalized contraception, oral and
  anal sex, and same-sex marriage</a>.
<p>
  This would be repression in the service of repression.

 


title: Shireen Abu Aqleh killed by "seemingly well-aimed" Israeli bullet
uri: Shireen-Abu-Aqleh-killed-by-seemingly-well-aimed-Israeli-bullet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Shireen_Abu_Aqleh_killed_by_seemingly_well-aimed_Israeli_bullet)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Shireen_Abu_Aqleh_killed_by_seemingly_well-aimed_Israeli_bullet)

content:
 
<p>
  *Shireen Abu Aqleh <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/shireen-abu-aqleh-palestinian-journalist-killed-by-israeli-bullet-un-says">killed by "seemingly well-aimed" Israeli bullet</a>, UN says.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Covid-19_vaccines_prevent_deaths)
title: Covid-19 vaccines prevent deaths
uri: Covid-19-vaccines-prevent-deaths
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Covid-19_vaccines_prevent_deaths)
content:
 
<p>
  Covid-19 vaccines <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/covid-vaccines-cut-global-death-toll-20m-first-year-study">prevented 20 million deaths in 2021</a>, estimated by a
  study.
<p>
  The study estimates that vaccinating 40% of the population of every
  country &mdash; presumably the more vulnerable groups &mdash; would have saved
  600,000 more lives during that time.

 


title: Urgent: Extend and expand Social Security
uri: Urgent-Extend-and-expand-Social-Security
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Urgent:_Extend_and_expand_Social_Security)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Urgent:_Extend_and_expand_Social_Security)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/expandsocialsecurity?nowrapper=true">extend and expand Social Security</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Urgent:_Expand_the_Supreme_Court)
title: Urgent: Expand the Supreme Court
uri: 2022-06-28-Urgent-Expand-the-Supreme-Court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Urgent:_Expand_the_Supreme_Court)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress and Biden to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/expand-scotus-roe-decision/">expand the Supreme Court</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on McDonalds to reduce antibiotics use
uri: Urgent-Call-on-McDonalds-to-reduce-antibiotics-use
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_McDonalds_to_reduce_antibiotics_use)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_McDonalds_to_reduce_antibiotics_use)

content:
 
<p>
  Everyone: call on McDonalds to carry out its commitment to <a href="https://uspirg.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49815&supporter_KEY=229474&uid=80194c17d0fbbc71ce12626b1b44954e&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:107878&utm_campaign=USP4-FPUB:ANTIBIO:OVERUSE-0622&utm_content=EM9:00C:0HH-CCP">reduce use of antibiotics in its beef.
<p>
  This is important to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#21_January_2022_(Antibiotic-resistant_bacteria)">prevent the spread of resistance to those antibiotics</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Urgent:_End_sanctions_on_Cuba)
title: Urgent: End sanctions on Cuba
uri: Urgent-End-sanctions-on-Cuba
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Urgent:_End_sanctions_on_Cuba)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/biden_cuba_sanctions">end sanctions on Cuba</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(orange_reproduction_breeding_age)
title: Orange roughy reproduce very slowly at 55 years old, only 50% are ready to breed.
uri: Orange-roughy-reproduce-very-slowly-at-55-years-old-only-50-are-read
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(orange_reproduction_breeding_age)
content:
 
<p>
Orange roughy reproduce very slowly -- at 55 years old, only 50% are
ready to breed. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/25/orange-roughy-campaigners-call-for-limit-to-trawling-of-species-after-breeding-age-of-73-revealed">This means fishing must be curtailed to save the
species.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(same_sex_couple_roe_wade_landscape)
title: "I’m very afraid": same-sex couples express anxiety about a post-Roe landscape.
uri: I-m-very-afraid-same-sex-couples-express-anxiety-about-a-post-Roe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(same_sex_couple_roe_wade_landscape)
content:
 
<p>
*"I’m very afraid": same-sex couples express 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/27/same-sex-couples-anxiety-post-roe-landscape">anxiety about a post-Roe
landscape.</a>*
<p>
Don't sit their expressing your fear!  Organize, recruit, and fight!



 


title: Oxfam's head calls for a windfall profits tax to help feed poor people.
uri: Oxfam-s-head-calls-for-a-windfall-profits-tax-to-help-feed-poor-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(windfall_tax_covid_profits_ease_food_crisis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(windfall_tax_covid_profits_ease_food_crisis)

content:
 
<p>
Oxfam's head calls for a windfall 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/27/windfall-tax-on-covid-profits-could-ease-catastrophic-food-crisis-says-oxfam">profits tax to help feed poor
people.</a>
<p>
This tax could certainly do a lot of good for poor people, and I am in
favor of it.  In the recent past, there was indeed enough food
available, so money to help poor people get a bigger share would solve
the problem of feeding them.  However, given Putin's blockade of
Ukraine, is that still true?  Would more money for the poor be
sufficient now?


 


title: Microplastics in fresh water keep intestinal viruses alive for longer
uri: Microplastics-in-fresh-water-keep-intestinal-viruses-alive-for-longer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(viruses_survive_hitchhiking_plastic_study)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(viruses_survive_hitchhiking_plastic_study)

content:
 
<p>
Microplastics in fresh water keep intestinal viruses alive for longer, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/27/viruses-survive-in-fresh-water-by-hitchhiking-on-plastic-study-finds">thus helping them infect more humans.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(roe_v_wade_fertility_industry)
title: States may prohibit in-vitro fertilization
uri: States-may-prohibit-in-vitro-fertilization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(roe_v_wade_fertility_industry)
content:
 
<p>
States may prohibit in-vitro fertilization, because that tends to produce lots
of 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/26/politics/fertility-industry-roe-v-wade-decision/index.html">extra embryos that do not get implanted.</a>


 


title: Innovative techniques producing higher crop yields
uri: Innovative-techniques-producing-higher-crop-yields
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(study_less_chem_fertiliser_high_crop_yield)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(study_less_chem_fertiliser_high_crop_yield)

content:
 
<p>
*Techniques such as adding manure and compost to soils, growing nitrogen-fixing plants between crops, and cultivating a wide range of produce instead of sticking to the same crops, can all increase yields while protecting and improving the natural ecosystems of farms.*
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/27/using-far-less-chemical-fertiliser-still-produces-high-crop-yields-study">The result is to economize on chemical fertiliser.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Don't_go_to_Malta)
title: Don't go to Malta
uri: Don-t-go-to-Malta
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Don't_go_to_Malta)
content:
 
<p>
  *"If you know a woman, if you love a woman, if you ever plan on
  knowing or loving a woman, or if you are a woman &mdash; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jun/28/if-you-love-or-are-a-woman-dont-go-to-malta-say-couple-in-abortion-drama">don't go to
  Malta</a>."*
<p>
  I think that is a slight exaggeration.  It it surely safe for a man to
  go to Malta alone.  It is surely safe for anyone who is not pregnant
  to visit to Malta for a short period of time.  Nonetheless, the basic
  point is valid.
<p>
  I am curious to know why Prudente could not take an ordinary
  commercial flight to Italy &mdash; or a ferry.  Even if there was some risk
  in those options, they may have been safer than awaiting fate in Malta.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Trump_knew_crows_was_armed)
title: Trump knew crows was armed
uri: Trump-knew-crows-was-armed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Trump_knew_crows_was_armed)
content:
 
<p>
  *Trump <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/28/trump-jan-6-rally-guns-capitol-attack">knew crowd at rally was armed yet demanded they be allowed closer [to the Capitol]</a>.*

 


title: Abortion rights protesters attacked by thugs
uri: Abortion-rights-protesters-attacked-by-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Abortion_rights_protesters_attacked_by_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Abortion_rights_protesters_attacked_by_thugs)

content:
 
<p>
  Thugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/28/peaceful-pro-choice-protests-violence-attacks-police">attacked abortion rights protesters in several US cities</a>.

 


title: Bogus Johnson issues open invitation for dismayed Russian scientists
uri: Bogus-Johnson-issues-open-invitation-for-dismayed-Russian-scientists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_issues_open_invitation_for_dismayed_Russian_scientists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_issues_open_invitation_for_dismayed_Russian_scientists)

content:
 
<p>
  *[Bogus Johnson] asks <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/27/johnson-issues-open-invitation-to-russian-scientists-dismayed-by-putins-violence">disaffected Russian academics to defect to the UK alongside Ukrainian colleagues</a>.*
<p>
  That would be wise and noble, except that we can't expect him to
  follow through honestly.

 


title: Post-Brexit trade deals that don't guarantee rights or violate employee protections
uri: Post-Brexit-trade-deals-that-don-t-guarantee-rights-or-violate-employe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Post-Brexit_trade_deals_that_don't_guarantee_rights_or_violate_employee_protections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Post-Brexit_trade_deals_that_don't_guarantee_rights_or_violate_employee_protections)

content:
 
<p>
  UK unions accuse the government of "pushing for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/28/tuc-issues-workers-rights-warning-over-post-brexit-trade-deals">post-Brexit trade deals with
  more than a dozen countries around the world that do not guarantee
  workers’ rights or systematically violate employee protections</a>."
<p>
  The natural result would be to undercut British workers with very
  cheap and terribly exploited labor.

 


title: California initiative to add abortion rights protection to state constitution
uri: California-initiative-to-add-abortion-rights-protection-to-state-const
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(California_initiative_to_add_abortion_rights_protection_to_state_constitution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(California_initiative_to_add_abortion_rights_protection_to_state_constitution)

content:
 
<p>
  *California to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/27/california-abortion-rights-state-constitution">vote on [an initiative to add] abortion rights protection to state constitution</a>.*

 


title: Period tracker apps should never tell any internet server anything about you
uri: Period-tracker-apps-should-never-tell-any-internet-server-anything-abo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Period_tracker_apps_should_never_tell_any_internet_server_anything_about_you)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Period_tracker_apps_should_never_tell_any_internet_server_anything_about_you)

content:
 
<p>
  In the free world, the natural way to write a period tracker app
  would <a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/health-privacy/period-tracker-apps-privacy-a2278134145/">operate purely locally and would never tell any internet
    server anything about you</a>.
<p>
  With proprietary apps, you're always at some risk.

 


title: Republican state Senate candidate arrested after punching Democratic opponent
uri: Republican-state-Senate-candidate-arrested-after-punching-Democratic-o
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Republican_state_Senate_candidate_arrested_after_punching_Democratic_opponent)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Republican_state_Senate_candidate_arrested_after_punching_Democratic_opponent)

content:
 
<p>
  *Republican state Senate candidate <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/06/26/republican-state-senate-candidate-arrested-after-punching-woman-in-face-at-abortion-rights-rally-hes-a-cop-too.html">arrested after punching [Democratic
  opponent] in face at abortion rights rally</a>.*
<p>
  The arrested man is also, as it happens, an official thug.
  What could be more natural?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(President_that_wants_to_tax_the_rich)
title: President that wants to tax the rich
uri: President-that-wants-to-tax-the-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(President_that_wants_to_tax_the_rich)
content:
 
<p>
  For the first time, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/26/attacking-inequality-colombias-leftist-government-could-save-amazon-and-planet">Colombia has a president that wants to tax the rich</a>.
  He does not have full support in congress, so he may have to work hard
  to get that passed.  I hope that he succeeds.

 


title: The party of extremists that stirs up violence and hate
uri: The-party-of-extremists-that-stirs-up-violence-and-hate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(The_party_of_extremists_that_stirs_up_violence_and_hate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(The_party_of_extremists_that_stirs_up_violence_and_hate)

content:
 
<p>
  The Republican Party is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/26/40-reasons-gop-clear-and-present-danger-us-democracy">a group of dangerous extremists led by
  dangerous extremists, and they stir up violence and hate</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 will not link to articles that promote it.  But I make
  exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important.
  That article is one of the exceptions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Energy_charter_treaty_update)
title: Energy charter treaty "update"
uri: Energy-charter-treaty-update
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Energy_charter_treaty_update)
content:
 
<p>
  Signatories have agreed to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/24/energy-treaty-update-fails-to-address-climate-crisis-activists-warn">"update" the Energy Charter Treaty</a>,
  a business-supremacy treaty that makes countries pay billions for
  the right to reduce fossil fuel activities.  The change would reduce
  this effect, but not eliminate it until 2033.  That is inadequate.
<p>
  Spain urged the European Union to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/23/spain-demands-eu-withdraw-energy-treaty-undermining-climate-action">quit the Energy Charter Treaty</a>.

 


title: US giving $52 billion to corporations
uri: US-giving-52-billion-to-corporations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(US_giving_$52_billion_to_corporations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(US_giving_$52_billion_to_corporations)

content:
 
<p>
  Robert Reich: *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/26/us-chips-act-intel-robert-reich">Why is the US about to give away $52bn to corporations
  like Intel</a>?*
<p>  
  I have a different answer.  Most US officials are so much under the
  thumb of business that, when businesses do certain things that hurt
  the country, the only solution they can propose is to pay businesses
  not to do those things.  This leads to ever more levels of subsidy.
<p>
  It used to be we had another kind of solution available: punish or tax
  businesses which did those things.  But businesses lobby for the
  principle that every complaint about business conduct is an occasion
  for more subsidy.

 


title: Protests across US for abortion rights
uri: Protests-across-US-for-abortion-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Protests_across_US_for_abortion_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Protests_across_US_for_abortion_rights)

content:
 
<p>
  Abortion rights supporters have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/26/abortion-rights-protests-across-us">protested across the US</a>.
  I wish I could get a pointer to where and how to find these
  protests, in a place that doesn't require running nonfree software to
  see the information.  If anyone can find such a site &mdash; or create one
  by scraping &mdash; I would appreciate the ability to direct others to
  protests, and if I know of another in Boston I could go to it myself.

 


title: Ukraine war not similar to World War I
uri: Ukraine-war-not-similar-to-World-War-I
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Ukraine_war_not_similar_to_World_War_I)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Ukraine_war_not_similar_to_World_War_I)

content:
 
<p>
  The author of Sleepwalkers, a book on the start of World War I,
  says that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/26/historian-says-dont-compare-ukraine-invasion-with-his-book-on-first-world-war">the Ukraine war is not at all similar to that and decries
  the comparison</a>.

 


title: Prayers in school authorized as "religious liberty"
uri: Prayers-in-school-authorized-as-religious-liberty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Prayers_in_school_authorized_as_religious_liberty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Prayers_in_school_authorized_as_religious_liberty)

content:
 
<p>
  The US Supreme Court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jun/27/supreme-court-coach-prayers-joseph-kennedy">authorized teachers in public schools to lead prayers</a>.
  This is supposedly part of their "religious liberty."
<p>
  The court did not seem to weigh highly the religious liberty of the students
  <em>not<em> to join in those prayers.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Pelosi, Hpyer, and Clyburn to apologise and resign
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Pelosi-Hpyer-and-Clyburn-to-apologise-and-resign
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Pelosi,_Hpyer,_and_Clyburn_to_apologise_and_resign)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Pelosi,_Hpyer,_and_Clyburn_to_apologise_and_resign)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Jim Clyburn to
  <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14623">apologize and resign from leadership Posts, for supporting anti-abortion
  Democrat Cuellar against a progressive candidate</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Urgent:_Regulate_PFAs)
title: Urgent: Regulate PFAs
uri: Urgent-Regulate-PFAs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#29_June_2022_(Urgent:_Regulate_PFAs)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-demand-congress-regulate-chemicals-that-contaminate-our-food-and-drinking-water-and-jeopardize-our-health?nowrapper=true">regulate PFAs</a>.

 


title: Removal of posts mentioning abortion pills
uri: Removal-of-posts-mentioning-abortion-pills
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Removal_of_posts_mentioning_abortion_pills)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Removal_of_posts_mentioning_abortion_pills)

content:
 
<p>

*Facebook and Instagram <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/28/facebook-instagram-meta-abortion-pills-posts">removing posts</a> with mentions of abortion pills.*
<p>
There are many more reasons to reject <a href="facebook.html">Facebook and Instagram.

 


title: Testimony about wrecker conspiring with Giuliani and Meadows
uri: Testimony-about-wrecker-conspiring-with-Giuliani-and-Meadows
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Testimony_about_wrecker_conspiring_with_Giuliani_and_Meadows)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Testimony_about_wrecker_conspiring_with_Giuliani_and_Meadows)

content:
 
<p>

Cassidy Hutchinson, who worked in the White House closely with the
wrecker, <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/cassidy-hutchinsons-chilling-testimony">testified about his conspiring</a> with Giuliani and Meadows to
launch the attack on the Capitol, and efforts to build it up and
keep it going.

 


title: Putin forces attacked shopping center
uri: Putin-forces-attacked-shopping-center
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Putin_forces_attacked_shopping_center)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Putin_forces_attacked_shopping_center)

content:
 
<p>

The Putin forces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/28/there-could-be-children-search-continues-amid-kremenchuk-rubble">attacked a shopping center</a> in Kyiv with two long-range
cruise missiles, during opening hours when many shoppers were inside.
<p>
Both missiles hit the shopping center, which shows that they did not go
off course.  They were aimed right there.  Firing them was a war crime.
<p>
The mall owners demanded stores disregard air-raids warnings and keep
operating continuously.  I hope the owners are sued into bankruptcy
for that, at least.

 


title: Erasing the biological definition of sex
uri: Erasing-the-biological-definition-of-sex
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Erasing_the_biological_definition_of_sex)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Erasing_the_biological_definition_of_sex)

content:
 
<p>

*Trying to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/28/erase-biological-definition-sex-gender-self-identification-trans-transgender-feminist-case">erase the biological definition of sex</a> isn't just misguided &mdash; it's
dangerous.*
<p>
Socially (or individually) defined gender rules are central for some
purposes &dash; mainly those relating to social relationships (including
but not limited to sexual or romantic relationships).  Biological sex
is crucial for some purposes &mdash; mainly those relating to reproduction,
medicine and biology.  We need to recognize both and distinguish them,
in our thinking and in our language.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Labour_losing_sense_of_purpose)
title: Labour losing sense of purpose
uri: Labour-losing-sense-of-purpose
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Labour_losing_sense_of_purpose)
content:
 
<p>

*Labour is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/28/labour-working-people-trade-unions">losing its sense of purpose</a> just as the trade unions that
gave birth to the party have rediscovered theirs.*

 


title: Salesh Prasad faces deportation to Fiji
uri: Salesh-Prasad-faces-deportation-to-Fiji
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Salesh_Prasad_faces_deportation_to_Fiji)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Salesh_Prasad_faces_deportation_to_Fiji)

content:
 
<p>

Salesh Prasad faces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/28/queer-california-man-deportation-fiji-us">deportation to Fiji</a>, where he knows no one but can
confidently expect to be persecuted because he is gay.
<p>
A 50-year-old man is not likely to engage in street fighting.  There
is no reason to keep him off the streets in the US, no reason to
deport him to life as a pariah.
<p>
In general, adults who have lived in the US for many years, since
childhood, should be free to remain.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Putin_needs_a_drawn-out_war)
title: Putin needs a drawn-out war
uri: Putin-needs-a-drawn-out-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Putin_needs_a_drawn-out_war)
content:
 
<p>

*Putin <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/28/putin-ar-the-west-zelenskiy-ukraine-russia">needs a drawn-out war</a> &mdash; the west’s timidity gives him one.*
<p>
The west should disregard Putin's absurd threats, not take them seriously.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Pressuring_students_to_accept_prayer)
title: Pressuring students to accept prayer
uri: Pressuring-students-to-accept-prayer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Pressuring_students_to_accept_prayer)
content:
 
<p>

The Christian extremists on the US Supreme Court wants to impose
Christianity on the US.  As a first step, it has voted to permit
public school teachers pray loudly with students, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/28/kennedy-v-bremerton-supreme-court-prayer-public-schools-football-coach">pressuring the
students to accept it</a>.
<p>
School team athletes won't dare disagree with their coach, who could
easily kick them off the team.  They are at his mercy.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Biodiversity_preservation_summit)
title: Biodiversity preservation summit
uri: Biodiversity-preservation-summit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Biodiversity_preservation_summit)
content:
 
<p>

The once-a-decade biodiversity preservation summit <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/28/cop15-lack-of-political-leadership-leaves-crucial-biodiversity-summit-in-peril-aoe">ended in failure</a> due to a lack of political will to achieve the goal.

 


title: Silicon Valley lobbied to change EU policy
uri: Silicon-Valley-lobbied-to-change-EU-policy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Silicon_Valley_lobbied_to_change_EU_policy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Silicon_Valley_lobbied_to_change_EU_policy)

content:
 
<p>

*   Silicon Valley <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/28/i-saw-first-hand-tech-giants-seduced-eu-google-meta">lobbied to change EU policy</a>.  Europe needs better ways to
   hold firms like Google and Meta to account.*

 


title: Things we grow facing climatic stress
uri: Things-we-grow-facing-climatic-stress
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Things_we_grow_facing_climatic_stress)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Things_we_grow_facing_climatic_stress)

content:
 
<p>

* Almost everything we grow and raise in the US is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/28/climate-crisis-food-shortages">facing some climatic
   stress</a>.*
<p>
Ten years from now, it will go beyond inconvenient shortages and cause
widespread hunger in the US.  And if we don't curb <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> soon,
the next step will be famine.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Mhammed_Zubair_arrested_in_India)
title: Mhammed Zubair arrested in India
uri: Mhammed-Zubair-arrested-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Mhammed_Zubair_arrested_in_India)
content:
 
<p>

India has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/28/delhi-police-arrest-muslim-journalist-mohammed-zubair-india-bjp">arrested journalist Mohammed Zubair</a> for supposedly
"insulting Hindus" in 2018.
<p>
The article does not tell us what the supposed insult actually said,
but it is not crucial to judging the issue.  Insult is part of freedom
of speech, and it includes the freedom to insult anyone &mdash; even you or
me.
<p>
Arundhati Roy: *Many, many of my beloved friends &mdash; poets, writers, professors,
   lawyers, human rights activists and journalists &mdash; are in prison, most
   of them charged under a dreaded law called the Unlawful Activities
   Prevention Act, all of them for speaking up for minorities, Dalits and
   forest-dwellers <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/22/opinions/bjp-hindu-muslim-democracy-modi-arundhati-roy/index.html">facing displacement and state terror</a>.*
<p>
*   What does it mean to be a bestselling author when the world is
   breaking? What does it mean to be considered a "success" when the <a href="media/15a3de53.so-many-candidates.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/archives/images/so-many-candidates.jpg">world
   is failing and everything you care about is being decimated? What is
   the moral way to be? The moral thing to do?*
<p>
I would not use the word <a href="english.html#decimate">"decimated"</a> to describe this.
since in this context, with its proper meaning, it is an understatement.

 


title: Chief official of New South Wales calls protesters "bloody idiots"
uri: Chief-official-of-New-South-Wales-calls-protesters-bloody-idiots
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Chief_official_of_New_South_Wales_calls_protesters_bloody_idiots)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Chief_official_of_New_South_Wales_calls_protesters_bloody_idiots)

content:
 
<p>

The chief official of New South Wales, of the extractivist Liberal
party (like the just-defeated prime minister), calls climate defense
protesters "bloody idiots" for practicing civil disobedience tactics
that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/28/nsw-premier-labels-blockade-australia-protesters-bloody-idiots-as-sydney-police-make-12-more-arrests">call attention to the danger of his policies</a>.
<p>
It is possible for civil disobedience tactics to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#22_November_2021_(Three_bridges_blocked_in_London)">backfire</a>.
<p>
However, when it's an enemy of the cause that says so, you shouldn't
listen.  Just as Putin keeps saying "Ukraine will be destroyed,"
planet-roaster Perrottet says, "Your protests are self-defeating,"
hoping they will give up and cease to oppose him.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_((satire)_Plastic_food)
title: (satire) Plastic food
uri: (satire)-Plastic-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_((satire)_Plastic_food)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/fisher-price-plastic-food-giving-kids-unrealistic-expec-1849088031">*Fisher-Price Plastic Food Giving Kids
   Unrealistic Expectation That There Will Be Enough Food.*</a>

 


title: Private business for government profit
uri: Private-business-for-government-profit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Private_business_for_government_profit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Private_business_for_government_profit)

content:
 
<p>

When the government describes private businesses as "partners", we
have to suspect they have converted it into a partner for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/27/corporatization-just-about-everything-including-climate-crisis-and-outer-space">their
profit</a>.  That is corruption.
<p>
The last example, that of private space stations, might not be so bad.
If the three companies operate space stations at their own expense, and
make a profit, that's not corruption.  However, if the government subsidizes them all to "compete", we won't get the benefits of private competition, so we
may as well pay publicly for a space station owned and run by the country.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Reppler_ordered_to_shut_down)
title: Reppler ordered to shut down
uri: Reppler-ordered-to-shut-down
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Reppler_ordered_to_shut_down)
content:
 
<p>
  The Philippine government has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/philippines-orders-news-site-rappler-to-close-as-nobel-prize-winner-maria-ressa-vows-to-fight-on">ordered Reppler to shut down</a>.
<p>
  Soon President Do-Dirty will leave office and be replaced with
  President Marcos II.  But I doubt that this will change anything.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(UK_and_renewable_energy)
title: UK and renewable energy
uri: UK-and-renewable-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(UK_and_renewable_energy)
content:
 
<p>
  The UK is building more renewable electric generating capacity,
  but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/29/five-things-we-have-learned-about-the-uks-path-to-net-zero">missing the chance to use energy more efficiently</a>.

 


title: Climate-related wildlife risks may remain for decades to centuries
uri: Climate-related-wildlife-risks-may-remain-for-decades-to-centuries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Climate-related_wildlife_risks_may_remain_for_decades_to_centuries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Climate-related_wildlife_risks_may_remain_for_decades_to_centuries)

content:
 
<p>
  *Research revealed Monday that even if global temperatures fall after
  peaking this century, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/27/biodiversity-risks-could-persist-decades-after-global-temperature-peak">climate-related risks to wildlife "may remain for
  decades to centuries</a>."*

 


title: Hotels that unions call for boycotting
uri: Hotels-that-unions-call-for-boycotting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Hotels_that_unions_call_for_boycotting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Hotels_that_unions_call_for_boycotting)

content:
 
<p>
  A list of hotels that <a href="https://www.fairhotel.org/stay-aware/avoid">unions call for boycotting</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_((Satire)_Florida_racial_purity_test)
title: (Satire) Florida racial purity test
uri: (Satire)-Florida-racial-purity-test
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_((Satire)_Florida_racial_purity_test)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Study Finds <a href="https://www.theonion.com/study-finds-majority-of-florida-students-can-t-pass-bas-1848964991">Majority Of Florida Students Can’t Pass Basic
  Test Of Racial Purity</a>.*

 


title: Hardening schools and arming teachers won't prevent shootings
uri: Hardening-schools-and-arming-teachers-won-t-prevent-shootings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Hardening_schools_and_arming_teachers_won't_prevent_shootings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Hardening_schools_and_arming_teachers_won't_prevent_shootings)

content:
 
<p>
  "Hardening schools" and arming teachers will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/28/making-us-schools-harder-targets-not-answer">not prevent shootings in
  schools</a>.  The high school in Uvalde was already "hardened", and a
  bunch of "good guys" with guns could not figure out what to do.

 


title: NHS privatisation linked to avoidable deaths
uri: NHS-privatisation-linked-to-avoidable-deaths
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(NHS_privatisation_linked_to_avoidable_deaths)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(NHS_privatisation_linked_to_avoidable_deaths)

content:
 
<p>
  *NHS privatisation drive <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/29/nhs-privatisation-drive-linked-to-rise-in-avoidable-deaths-study-suggests">linked to rise in avoidable deaths, study suggests</a>.*
<p>
  This is what we would suspect, but it will be harder for politicians to
  continue the privatization once this is more than just a suspicion.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Republican_party's_support)
title: Republican party's support
uri: Republican-party-s-support
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Republican_party's_support)
content:
 
<p>
  The Republican party is <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/25/roe-v-wade-v-abortion/#no-i-in-uterus">supported by a coalition of single-issue
  voters for various issues, but it works for the plutocrats, and uses
  cruelty to make its supporters stop thinking</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(So_many_Big_Brothers)
title: So many Big Brothers
uri: So-many-Big-Brothers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(So_many_Big_Brothers)
content:
 
<p>
  Rebecca Solnit: *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/24/big-brother-george-orwell-climate-change-surveillance">A planet in peril and so many Big Brothers: George
  Orwell would have been shocked</a>.*
<p>
  I hope some one can inform Solnit that some of us do not "opt in" to this
  surveillance and manipulation.

 


title: Poor countries' unpayable debt should be forgiven
uri: Poor-countries-unpayable-debt-should-be-forgiven
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Poor_countries'_unpayable_debt_should_be_forgiven)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Poor_countries'_unpayable_debt_should_be_forgiven)

content:
 
<p>
  George Monbiot: rich countries should <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/24/rich-nations-climate-debt-cancelling-debts-emissions-global-debt-swap-campaign">forgive poor countries'
  unpayable debt, so those can spend money on conservation and education
  rather than debt service</a>.
<p>
  Perhaps this should be conditional the beneficiary countries' cutting
  down the extraction of fossil fuels.

 


title: Free-range farming and animal-borne pandemics
uri: Free-range-farming-and-animal-borne-pandemics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Free-range_farming_and_animal-borne_pandemics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Free-range_farming_and_animal-borne_pandemics)

content:
 
<p>
  *Spread of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/23/free-range-extensive-farming-may-risk-more-animal-borne-pandemics-than-intensive-factory-farming-study">"free-range" farming may raise risk of animal-borne pandemics</a>.*

 


title: Democratic PACs running Republican ads
uri: Democratic-PACs-running-Republican-ads
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Democratic_PACs_running_Republican_ads)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Democratic_PACs_running_Republican_ads)

content:
 
<p>
  Democratic PACs are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/22/democratic-groups-panned-over-dangerous-midterm-ploy-boost-gop-extremists">running ads to help extremist Republicans win
  primaries</a>, in the hope that they will be easy to defeat in the general
  election.
<p>
  Aside from the fact that this is like betting double-or-nothing,
  which is risky, it's also insincere.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Musk_wants_to_fire_salaried_workers)
title: Musk wants to fire salaried workers
uri: Musk-wants-to-fire-salaried-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Musk_wants_to_fire_salaried_workers)
content:
 
<p>
  Musk said he <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/21/cars/elon-musk-tesla-job-cuts/index.html">plans to fire many salaried Tesla workers and hire more
  hourly workers</a>.  In other words, he wants a more precarious work
  force.
<p>
  He also seems to plan to hire other salaried workers later this year
  to replace those he is firing now.  You'd think he could afford to
  keep those workers on for the few months in between.  Or is this
  really a fire-and-rehire scheme to knock wages down?  Musk has a
  pattern of covering up nasty actions with distraction publicity.

 


title: Clarence Thomas wants to overturn freedom of the press ruling
uri: Clarence-Thomas-wants-to-overturn-freedom-of-the-press-ruling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Clarence_Thomas_wants_to_overturn_freedom_of_the_press_ruling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Clarence_Thomas_wants_to_overturn_freedom_of_the_press_ruling)

content:
 
<p>
  *Does Justice Clarence Thomas <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/29/does-justice-clarence-thomas-want-to-overturn-a-landmark-freedom-of-the-press-ruling">want to overturn a landmark freedom of the press
  ruling</a>?*
<p>
  The plutocrats that Republicans (and many Democrats) work for would sue
  newspapers over and over until they crack.

 


title: Australia makes serious decarbonization plan
uri: Australia-makes-serious-decarbonization-plan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Australia_makes_serious_decarbonization_plan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Australia_makes_serious_decarbonization_plan)

content:
 
<p>
  Australia is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/30/what-australias-power-grid-urgently-needs-for-once-in-a-century-transformation-away-from-fossil-fuels">making a serious decarbonization plan for electricity</a>.
<p>
  I don't think it aims to do enough before 2030, though.
  Also, there are other sectors that need to be decarbonized.

 


title: Imaginary anonymous note from right-wing Supreme Court justice
uri: Imaginary-anonymous-note-from-right-wing-Supreme-Court-justice
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Imaginary_anonymous_note_from_right-wing_Supreme_Court_justice)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Imaginary_anonymous_note_from_right-wing_Supreme_Court_justice)

content:
 
<p>
*An <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/27/anonymous-note-liberals-right-wing-supreme-court-justice">[Imaginary] Anonymous Note to Liberals From a Right-Wing Supreme
 Court Justice</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(War_on_drugs_prolonged_civil_war)
title: War on drugs prolonged civil war
uri: War-on-drugs-prolonged-civil-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(War_on_drugs_prolonged_civil_war)
content:
 
<p>
  *War on drugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/war-on-drugs-prolonged-colombias-decades-long-civil-war-landmark-report-finds">prolonged Colombia’s decades-long civil war</a>, landmark report finds.*
<p>
  The leftist guerrilla movements started fighting against the inequality
  of Colombia, but over the decades turned to drugs for financing and
  got sucked into that.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Cassidy_Hutchinson's_testimony)
title: Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony
uri: Cassidy-Hutchinson-s-testimony
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Cassidy_Hutchinson's_testimony)
content:
 
<p>
  A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/28/jan-6-hearing-key-takeaways-latest">summary of key points in Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony</a>.
<p>
  *"Hutchinson's testimony of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/28/bombshell-after-bombshell-dropped-jan-6-testimony-homes-trump-guilt">the deeply detailed plans of January 6 and
  the inaction of those in the White House in response to the violence
  show just how close we came to a coup</a>."*

 


title: Attacking abortion rights by taking over supreme courts
uri: Attacking-abortion-rights-by-taking-over-supreme-courts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Attacking_abortion_rights_by_taking_over_supreme_courts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Attacking_abortion_rights_by_taking_over_supreme_courts)

content:
 
<p>
  In Poland, as in the US, right-wing Christians attacked abortion rights
  by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/jun/29/europeans-pro-choice-womens-rights-roe-v-wade-us-poland">taking over the country's supreme court</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Bogus_carbon_offset_scheme_recognized)
title: Bogus carbon offset scheme recognized
uri: Bogus-carbon-offset-scheme-recognized
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Bogus_carbon_offset_scheme_recognized)
content:
 
<p>
  Australia's new government has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/29/chris-bowen-to-announce-review-of-carbon-credits-system-after-expert-labelled-it-a">recognized that its carbon offset scheme
  is bogus</a>.
<p>
  That is <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#16_March_2012_(Bogus_Carbon_Claims)">true elsewhere, too</a>.  I hope other governments will recognize it.

 


title: Fossil-fuel car sales will stop in EU by 2035
uri: Fossil-fuel-car-sales-will-stop-in-EU-by-2035
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Fossil-fuel_car_sales_will_stop_in_EU_by_2035)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Fossil-fuel_car_sales_will_stop_in_EU_by_2035)

content:
 
<p>
  The EU countries agreed on a law to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/eu-countries-reach-climate-crisis-deal-after-late-night-talks">stop sale of new fossil-fuel cars
  by 2035</a>.
<p>
  Avoiding global climate disaster requires much more than this, but at
  least it's a step forward.  Other major economies (such as the US)
  have not done even this much.

 


title: Urgent: Call on these companies to stop funding attacks on abortion rights
uri: Urgent-Call-on-these-companies-to-stop-funding-attacks-on-abortion-ri
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_these_companies_to_stop_funding_attacks_on_abortion_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_July_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_these_companies_to_stop_funding_attacks_on_abortion_rights)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/stop-funding-attacks-on-abortion/">call on these companies to stop funding attacks on abortion
  rights</a>: Amazon, Google, AT&T, Citi, Coca-Cola, CVS, Walmart, Verizon,
  GM, Comcast, Walgreens, and T-Mobile.

 


title: Unreal cost claims to sidetrack renewable energy and promote nuclear
uri: Unreal-cost-claims-to-sidetrack-renewable-energy-and-promote-nuclear
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Unreal_cost_claims_to_sidetrack_renewable_energy_and_promote_nuclear)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Unreal_cost_claims_to_sidetrack_renewable_energy_and_promote_nuclear)

content:
 
<p>
  Planet roasters <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/30/net-zero-nuance-commentary-on-decarbonising-the-grid-misses-the-mark-on-batteries-and-nuclear">continue making totally unreal claims about energy costs to try to sidetrack renewable generation and promote nuclear power</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(New_York_gun_permit_law)
title: New York gun permit law
uri: New-York-gun-permit-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(New_York_gun_permit_law)
content:
 
<p>
  New York State is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/01/new-york-gun-control-special-legislative-session">drawing up a new gun permit law</a>,
  to replace the one that the Supreme Court overturned.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Weaponized_apps)
title: Weaponized apps
uri: Weaponized-apps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Weaponized_apps)
content:
 
<p>
  *Google Maps or a random game on your phone could <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/28/why-us-woman-are-deleting-their-period-tracking-apps">just as easily be
  weaponized against someone as a menstrual tracking app</a>.*
<p>
  To keep people safe, we must reject the practice of designing
  programs to send data anywhere off your machine, except on your
  explicit request.

 


title: Thugs coerce asylum seekers into pushing migrants back to Turkey
uri: Thugs-coerce-asylum-seekers-into-pushing-migrants-back-to-Turkey
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Thugs_coerce_asylum_seekers_into_pushing_migrants_back_to_Turkey)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Thugs_coerce_asylum_seekers_into_pushing_migrants_back_to_Turkey)

content:
 
<p>
  *Greek [<a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>] coerce asylum seekers into pushing [actually, rowing]
  fellow migrants back to Turkey.*
  And the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> beat those up before before having them pushed back.
<p>
  The refugees are told they will be charged as smugglers if they
  refuse to help row the others back.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Colombia_and_President_Petro)
title: Colombia and President Petro
uri: Colombia-and-President-Petro
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Colombia_and_President_Petro)
content:
 
<p>
  The political situation in Colombia, and <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/29/uncertainty-and-hope-set-stage-colombias-future-leftist-government">President Petro's prospects for
  changing it</a>.

 


title: Striking subcontracted non-medical workers
uri: Striking-subcontracted-non-medical-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Striking_subcontracted_non-medical_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Striking_subcontracted_non-medical_workers)

content:
 
<p>
  Subcontracted non-medical workers in British hospitals are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/29/i-feel-like-a-second-class-citizen-outsourced-hospital-staff-join-strikes">now striking</a>.
<p>
  Subcontracting has been one aspect of the general Tory pressure on the NHS.

 


title: EU wants commercial services to scan all communications
uri: EU-wants-commercial-services-to-scan-all-communications
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(EU_wants_commercial_services_to_scan_all_communications)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(EU_wants_commercial_services_to_scan_all_communications)

content:
 
<p>
  The EU is considering a <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-online-child-abuse-law-make-us-less-safe/">sweeping requirement for all commercial
  services for users to communicate or post anything to scan all
  communications</a>.
<p>
  The stated purpose is to detect child sexual abuse, but since this is
  a tool for Chinese-style repression, it hardly matters what purpose is
  stated.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Congress_and_Supreme_Court)
title: Congress and Supreme Court
uri: Congress-and-Supreme-Court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Congress_and_Supreme_Court)
content:
 
<p>
  If Congress legislates to legalize abortion, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/30/opinions/codifying-roe-scotus-abortion-nourse/index.html">it will not be
  straightforward to stop the fanatical Justices from finding an excuse
  to overturn that law</a>.
<p>
  According to the writer, the Court of Chaos has already abolished most
  of the possible bases for Congress to establish any sort of right.  It
  is now easier to prohibit something nationwide than to make it lawful
  nationwide.
<p>
  <a href="https://act.grassrootslaw.org/go/9654?source=ema20220627-8610&t=1001&akid=8610%2E7967588%2E-UvkdU">Here's a plan that would do the job</a> &mdash; because it includes expanding
  the Supreme Court.  That would make possible reversing the damage, not
  just the immediate decision overturning Roe v Wade, but the deeper
  levels too.

 


title: Conviction appealed since it was based on Google search
uri: Conviction-appealed-since-it-was-based-on-Google-search
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Conviction_appealed_since_it_was_based_on_Google_search)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Conviction_appealed_since_it_was_based_on_Google_search)

content:
 
<p>
  A defendant has appealed a conviction because it was based on <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-google-reverse-keyword-searches-rcna35749">ordering
  Google to reveal which people had done a particular kind of search</a>.
<p>
  Fanatical Christian officials could do this to find women who might have
  got abortions.

 


title: (Satire) Six provinces ruled by conservative justices
uri: (Satire)-Six-provinces-ruled-by-conservative-justices
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_((Satire)_Six_provinces_ruled_by_conservative_justices)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_((Satire)_Six_provinces_ruled_by_conservative_justices)

content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Supreme Court Casually Mentions <a href="https://www.theonion.com/supreme-court-casually-mentions-nation-now-divided-into-1849129602">Nation Now Divided Into Six
  Provinces Ruled By Conservative Justices</a>.*

 


title: Proud Boys designated as terrorists in New Zealand
uri: Proud-Boys-designated-as-terrorists-in-New-Zealand
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Proud_Boys_designated_as_terrorists_in_New_Zealand)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Proud_Boys_designated_as_terrorists_in_New_Zealand)

content:
 
<p>
  New Zealand has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/01/new-zealand-declares-us-far-right-proud-boys-and-the-base-terrorist-groups">designated the Proud Boys as a terrorist group</a>.
<p>
  It seems to fit that description, but these decisions should be made
  by a trial, not arbitrarily.

 


title: Labour party rejecting candidates it considers leftist
uri: Labour-party-rejecting-candidates-it-considers-leftist
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Labour_party_rejecting_candidates_it_considers_leftist)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Labour_party_rejecting_candidates_it_considers_leftist)

content:
 
<p>
  The Labour Party seems to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/01/starmer-allies-reject-claims-leftwingers-blocked-from-standing-for-labour">rejecting candidates for Parliament that it
  considers leftist</a>.
<p>
  Now that Labour fails to oppose plutocracy hard, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/01/striking-workers-opposition-britain-strikes-public-opinion">striking workers
  provide Britain's opposition</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Anti-abortion_crusade's_next_goal)
title: Anti-abortion crusade's next goal
uri: Anti-abortion-crusade-s-next-goal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Anti-abortion_crusade's_next_goal)
content:
 
<p>
  The anti-abortion crusade's next goal is to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jul/01/anti-abortion-movement-roe-reversal-what-next">impose a ban on abortion
  on all Americans</a>.
  Many of them are willing to do this by hook or by crook.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Putin_forces_threatening_teachers)
title: Putin forces threatening teachers
uri: Putin-forces-threatening-teachers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Putin_forces_threatening_teachers)
content:
 
<p>
  The Putin forces are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/01/moscow-forcing-teachers-in-ukraine-to-sign-up-to-russian-curriculum">threatening teachers in occupied Ukraine with
  firing, eviction, and possible imprisonment or violence unless they
  agree to teach Putin's censored curriculum</a>.
  If they do agree, they may be punished by Ukraine in the future.
<p>
  I agree that Ukraine should not punish civilians who collaborated
  under duress.  But I wonder if there is any way for teachers (and
  others unwillingly under Putin's rule) to get out.
<p>
  Certainly, Ukraine should try harder to make sure all teachers to
  leave areas that may soon fall to the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>.

 


title: Palestinian Authority routinely tortures [prisoners]
uri: Palestinian-Authority-routinely-tortures-prisoners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Palestinian_Authority_routinely_tortures_[prisoners])

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Palestinian_Authority_routinely_tortures_[prisoners])

content:
 
<p>
Human Rights Watch: *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/01/palestinian-authority-routinely-tortures-detainees-says-human-rights-watch">Palestinian Authority routinely tortures [prisoners]</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Cassidy_Hutchinson's_testimony)
title: Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony
uri: 2022-07-03-Cassidy-Hutchinson-s-testimony
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Cassidy_Hutchinson's_testimony)
content:
 
<p>
  Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Tony Ornato told her <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/secret-service-agent-testify-trump-wheel-jan-6">the wrecker
  tried to grab control of his limousine, when Secret Service agents
  refused to take him to the Capitol where his followers were attacking</a>.
  However, a Secret Service agent says that the wrecker did not actually
  do that.
<p>
  This is no reason to doubt Hutchinson's testimony.  She did not claim
  to have seen those events herself &mdash; she was reporting what someone
  else told her.  If he changes his story now, that could mean he
  regrets having had loose lips.
<p>
  However, I am sure that the the wrecking crew will try to twist this
  so that it appears to shed discredit on everything she testified to.
<p>
  If the wrecker did to try to grab the wheel, I cannot blame him for
  that.  If my driver flat-out insisted in taking me where I did not
  want to go, I would consider it kidnapping and I would think about how
  to escape from the car.  To grab the steering wheel might be
  ineffective, or dangerous, but it would not be wrong under those
  circumstances.  This, in itself, would not matter for his guilt or
  innocence.
<p>
  What does matter is that he wanted to go to the Capitol and egg on his
  followers in attacking it.  That was inculpating, even if he asked for
  it in perfectly civil terms.
  

 


title: Study finds that Australia's bush fire season has grown by almost a month in 40 years
uri: Study-finds-that-Australia-s-bush-fire-season-has-grown-by-almost-a-mo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(bushfire_season_austrailia_40year_study)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(bushfire_season_austrailia_40year_study)

content:
 
<p>
*Australia's bush fire season has grown by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/01/australias-bushfire-season-has-grown-by-almost-a-month-in-40-years-study-finds">almost a month in 40 years,
study finds.*</a>
<p>
We have a big increase in wildfires, and the times of year that they happen,
in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/04/climate-change-america-wildfire-season">US</a>, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/28/northwestern-heatwave-sparks-calls-transformative-climate-action">Canada</a>, Spain, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/31/putin-sends-military-fight-siberia-forest-fires-russia">and Siberia</a>

 


title: Turkey demands that Sweden extradite "terrorist supporters" including those of the PKK
uri: Turkey-demands-that-Sweden-extradite-terrorist-supporters-including
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(erdogan_warns_turkey_finland_sweden_accession_to_nato)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(erdogan_warns_turkey_finland_sweden_accession_to_nato)

content:
 
<p>
Turkey demands that Sweden extradite "terrorist supporters" including
those of the PKK, or it will block 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/30/erdogan-warns-turkey-could-still-block-finland-and-swedens-accession-to-nato">Sweden's accession to NATO at some
later point.</a>
<p>
Sweden recently "designated" the PKK as a "terrorist organization"
without a trial.  That's always an injustice, and this illustrates it.
That wrong is practiced by many countries including the US.
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/21/rejecting-challenge-no-fly-list-federal-appeals-court-leaves-men-charged-no-crime">countries including the US.</a>
<p>
It would be an additional wrong to do this and then suddenly start
to extradite people who had previously been accepted as refugees.
Sweden must at least give those people time to leave.
<p>
Has Sweden has also "designated" Rojava, the state of the Syrian
Kurds, as "a terrorist organization"?  I would think so.  I fear that
Turkey demands extradition of people for working with and supporting
Rojava and its army, which is a noble cause, and I fear that Sweden
will eventually do that.

 


title: Charges were dropped against the Michigan officials involved in poisoning the water in Flint.
uri: Charges-were-dropped-against-the-Michigan-officials-involved-in-poison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(flint_court_throws_out_indictments_top_officials)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(flint_court_throws_out_indictments_top_officials)

content:
 
<p>
Charges were dropped against the Michigan officials involved in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/29/flint-residents-disgusted-after-court-throws-out-indictments-top-officials">poisoning the
water in Flint.</a>
<p>
For information about the poisoning and its causes, 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/25/1783419/-Yes-Flint-you-can-drink-the-filtered-water-but-the-emergency-isn-t-over-yet?detail=emailLL">see these notes.</a>
<p>
The charges were dropped because of a fundamental irregularity in
procedure.  I wonder if the charges can be refiled in the proper way.

 


title: Plutocratist campaign that sabotaged EPA
uri: Plutocratist-campaign-that-sabotaged-EPA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Plutocratist_campaign_that_sabotaged_EPA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Plutocratist_campaign_that_sabotaged_EPA)

content:
 
<p>
  About the decades-long plutocratist campaign that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/01/the-us-supreme-court-just-declared-war-on-the-earths-future">led to last week's
  sabotage of the EPA's authority to defend human civilization from
  global heating disaster</a>.

 


title: Google will delete sensitive location data
uri: Google-will-delete-sensitive-location-data
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Google_will_delete_sensitive_location_data)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Google_will_delete_sensitive_location_data)

content:
 
<p>
  Google will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/01/google-delete-location-data-abortion-clinic">delete location history data showing a visit to an abortion
  clinic and certain other sensitive places</a>.
<p>
  That would protect people from repression using certain data bases,
  but plenty of other companies collect location data in various ways,
  including mobile phone networks.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_((Satire)_Vasectomy_in_PSA)
title: (Satire) Vasectomy in PSA
uri: (Satire)-Vasectomy-in-PSA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_((Satire)_Vasectomy_in_PSA)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Elmo Receives <a href="https://www.theonion.com/elmo-receives-vasectomy-in-psa-on-preventing-unwanted-p-1849129634">Vasectomy In PSA On Preventing Unwanted Pregnancies</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(LNG_exports_would_be_disaster)
title: LNG exports would be disaster
uri: LNG-exports-would-be-disaster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(LNG_exports_would_be_disaster)
content:
 
<p>
  *Expanding US <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/30/expanding-us-lng-exports-would-be-planetary-disaster">LNG Exports Would Be Planetary Disaster</a>.*

 


title: Republicans forcing rape victims to give birth
uri: Republicans-forcing-rape-victims-to-give-birth
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Republicans_forcing_rape_victims_to_give_birth)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Republicans_forcing_rape_victims_to_give_birth)

content:
 
<p>
  Mississippi Republicans are <a href="https://www.mississippifreepress.org/25273/12-year-old-incest-victims-should-birth-dads-child-house-speaker-gunn-says">determined to force rape victims to give birth</a>.

 


title: Republicans trying to legislate repression
uri: Republicans-trying-to-legislate-repression
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Republicans_trying_to_legislate_repression)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Republicans_trying_to_legislate_repression)

content:
 
<p>
  Republicans are avidly trying to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/29/abortion-state-lines/">legislate repression against people
  who visit another state to get an abortion</a>.
  If Republicans can't actually prosecute them, they will try to
  organize people to sue them into bankruptcy.
<p>
  Criminalizing abortions <a href="Washington's governor Inslee has ordered the state thug department
not to cooperate with requests from other states for information
about who got an abortion in Washington.">converts the thug department into your enemy,
  even if you're not female</a>.
<p>
  Washington's governor Inslee has ordered the state thug department
  <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/01/us/washington-abortion-sanctuary-state/index.html">not to cooperate with requests from other states for information
  about who got an abortion in Washington</a>.

 


title: Supreme court laying groundwork to pre-rig 2024 election
uri: Supreme-court-laying-groundwork-to-pre-rig-2024-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Supreme_court_laying_groundwork_to_pre-rig_2024_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Supreme_court_laying_groundwork_to_pre-rig_2024_election)

content:
 
<p>
  *Beware: The Supreme Court Is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/01/2024-election-nightmare-scotus-plotting">Laying Groundwork to Pre-Rig the 2024 Election</a>.*
<p>
  If it rules that state legislatures have total arbitrary control over
  how to choose a state's electors, Republican states will use that to
  disregard the actual votes and make the Republican presidential
  candidate the winner.
<p>
  Three of the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1107648753/supreme-court-north-carolina-redistricting-independent-state-legislature-theory">fanatical in-justices have already said they are in favor
  of this</a>.
<p>
  We need to prepare to stop them, recognizing that we can't count on
  principles of jurisprudence to deter them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Republican_violent_ads)
title: Republican violent ads
uri: Republican-violent-ads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Republican_violent_ads)
content:
 
<p>
  Several Republican extremist politicians and candidates have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/02/republican-violent-ads-rino-hunting-permit">posted
  messages hinting at violence against Democrats, or against
  non-extremist Republicans, and the trend is that the hints get more
  obvious</a>.

 


title: Human immune system doesn't do a good job against Omicron, BA.4, or BA.5
uri: Human-immune-system-doesn-t-do-a-good-job-against-Omicron-BA-4-or-BA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Human_immune_system_doesn't_do_a_good_job_against_Omicron,_BA.4,_or_BA.5)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Human_immune_system_doesn't_do_a_good_job_against_Omicron,_BA.4,_or_BA.5)

content:
 
<p>
  The human immune system <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/01/herd-immunity-covid-virus-vaccine">doesn't do a good job against Omicron, and
  even less against the newer BA.4 and BA.5 variants</a>.
  People catch it over and over &mdash; and each time, long Covid may
  develop afterward.
<p>
  The existing vaccines, developed against the original virus,
  reduce the rate of hospitalization and death, but don't prevent
  people from getting sick again and again.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Brittney_Griner)
title: Brittney Griner
uri: Brittney-Griner
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Brittney_Griner)
content:
 
<p>
  What should we say about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/01/brittney-griner-us-basketball-player-trial-russia-drugs-charges">the Russian drug charges against Brittney Griner</a>?
<p>
  First of all, the "war on drugs" is an injustice.  Nobody should be
  punished for possessing marijuana or its derivatives.  On that basic
  level, the conclusion is clear: she ought to be freed,
<p>
  There are many countries that do, or might, put someone in prison for
  years for carrying hashish oil.  The UAE has an extreme practice of
  doing this, which is why I <a href="/stay-away-countries.html">urge people not to transit through Dubai
  airport</a>.
  The US remains allied with Dubai despite this and other nasty
  practices.
<p>
  Indeed, the US might itself imprison Americans for doing exactly what
  she did.  Marijuana products remain prohibited by the federal
  government and many states.
<p>
  I won't argue that this makes it legitimate for Russia to imprison
  Griner for carrying hashish oil.  It is wrong for any country to do
  that.  A's injustice towards people P, Q and R does not justify B's
  injustice towards people X, Y and Z.  However, it's a mistake to
  treat this as worse when Putin does it than when anyone else does it.
<p>
  Is Putin using her as a hostage?  Perhaps he is &mdash; he does
  that sort of thing.  But it isn't very useful to harp on that.
  The more the US demands he release her, the more valuable she
  becomes as a hostage.
<p>
  I suggest that Americans focus on demanding full legalization of
  marijuana in the US, a goal which is attainable.  Then it would
  have more moral stature to call on other countries to release
  prisoners of war in the war on drugs.

 


title: Urgent: Suspend filibuster and protect abortion rights
uri: Urgent-Suspend-filibuster-and-protect-abortion-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Urgent:_Suspend_filibuster_and_protect_abortion_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Urgent:_Suspend_filibuster_and_protect_abortion_rights)

content:
 
<p>US citizens: call on the Senate
  to <a href="https://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/abolish_the_filibuster_/">suspend
  the filibuster and protect abortion rights</a>.</p>
<p>At the same time, the Senate should legislate the right to use
  birth control and the legitimacy of same-sex marriage, since those
  are the next targets of the Court of Chaos.</p>
<p>How to do
  this <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_July_2022_(Congress_and_Supreme_Court)">so
  that the same court can't invalidate it</a> may be a tricky problem.
  It may require expanding the court to cancel the religious
  extremists.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Authority for the EPA to regulate total emissions of any greenhouse gas
uri: Urgent-Authority-for-the-EPA-to-regulate-total-emissions-of-any-green
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Urgent:_Authority_for_the_EPA_to_regulate_total_emissions_of_any_greenhouse_gas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Urgent:_Authority_for_the_EPA_to_regulate_total_emissions_of_any_greenhouse_gas)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your senators (each one) and call on them
to explicitly enact the authority for the EPA to regulate total
emissions of any greenhouse gas.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Limits on state use of facial recognition
uri: Urgent-Limits-on-state-use-of-facial-recognition
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Urgent:_Limits_on_state_use_of_facial_recognition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Urgent:_Limits_on_state_use_of_facial_recognition)

content:
 
<p>

Massachusetts residents: call on your state legislators to enact
<a href="https://action.aclu.org/send-message/ma-face-surveillance?initms_aff=ma&initms_chan=eml&utm_medium=eml&initms=220627_affcampaign_regulate-face-surveillance_gradead_sail&utm_source=sail&utm_campaign=affcampaign&utm_content=220627_privacytechnology_regulate-face-surveillance_gradead&af=Yb3AJIpkvnwkl6wKwyjELOdf4si7cdbi9GZnigtn2XsinkZMgW/laHLUPy6o6RIvbf5eXPI4VQ9MCb7u6csUcuJHGCwdsf/Ekhq8Oy/iV2Y/VM5bOih/HmQmLg9UcJwBelZFsSGw38zZwE5iPDbe8SiTlCng7MmoxLHWel8aL4o%3D&ms_aff=ma&ms_chan=eml&ms=220627_affcampaign_regulate-face-surveillance_gradead_sail">limits on state use of facial recognition</a>.
<p>
Here's the text I gave as my personal message.
<p>
Please vote to enact the recommendations of the Special Commission on
Facial Recognition Technology. Those recommended rules will limit the
use of facial recognition by and for state government agencies so that
it does not become oppressive &mdash; presuming that the rules apply to all
jurisdictions that are part of the state. (I can't see an explicit
statement about that.)
<p>
However, this will certainly not be enough to protect us from the
repressive potential of facial recognition. Private companies can
also use facial recognition in ways that repress people. Imagine that
Amazon Ring joins forces with Clearview AI: it could track almost
everyone almost everywhere. It could report every person from Texas
that visits an abortion clinic in Massachusetts, for possible
prosecution in Texas. There are many other unjust possibilities.
Other methods of tracking, for instance through cellular phones, can
have the same effects.
<p>
To prevent tracking technology from threatening many human rights, we
need to legislate that it not be used in Massachusetts.
<p>
Thus, I urge you to follow the adoption of the commission's recommendations
about governmental use of facial recognition with strict limits on
private use of tracking technology.

 


title: New York thugs violently arrested saxophone player
uri: New-York-thugs-violently-arrested-saxophone-player
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(New_York_thugs_violently_arrested_saxophone_player)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(New_York_thugs_violently_arrested_saxophone_player)

content:
 
<p>

New York thugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/01/new-york-street-vendors-arrests-mayor-eric-adams-nypd">violently arrested</a> a beloved saxophone player, injuring
him and damaging his instrument, for playing without authorization in
the subway.
<p>
Apparently Night-Mayor Adams has taken the bogus "broken windows"
theory one step further.  Breaking windows is undisputedly wrong,
though not a heinous crime.  Playing music in the subway is merely
against a regulation.
<p>
The first lesson is, never vote for an ex-cop for mayor.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Supreme_Court_ruling_on_CO2_emissions)
title: Supreme Court ruling on CO2 emissions
uri: Supreme-Court-ruling-on-CO2-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Supreme_Court_ruling_on_CO2_emissions)
content:
 
<p>

The Supreme Court ruled that the EPA can regulate CO2 emissions only
in <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/02/frightening-implications-ruling-go-far-beyond-epa">limited, local ways</a>, not aiming for major reductions in total
planet-roasting emissions.
<p>
That means it can't do the one task <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/30/opinions/scotus-epa-carbon-dioxide-climate-sutter/index.html">most important</a> for civilization's
survival.
<p>
*Biden Urged to Take Emergency Action After <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/30/biden-urged-take-emergency-action-after-disastrous-climate-ruling-supreme-court">"Disastrous" Climate Ruling</a> by Supreme Court*.
<p>
What he has been doing recently is the opposite: unleashing a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/30/critics-say-biden-drilling-bonanza-wont-lower-gas-prices-will-worsen-climate-crisis">big
increase in US oil extraction</a>, which will take effect several years
from now.
<p>
*Environmentalists condemn Biden administration’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/02/biden-oil-drilling-plan-environment-climate">offshore drilling plan</a>.*
<p>
It would be better for gasoline prices to increase in a slow, steady,
predictable fashion, with gas tax increases scheduled in advance.
But they must increase!
<p>
Now legislators are calling for expanding the Supreme Court to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/30/markey-bowman-join-climate-coalition-urging-scotus-expansion">undo
its climate attack</a>, in addition to abortion rights and voting rights.

 


title: Louisiana's racially rigged electoral map
uri: Louisiana-s-racially-rigged-electoral-map
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Louisiana's_racially_rigged_electoral_map)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Louisiana's_racially_rigged_electoral_map)

content:
 
<p>

*In <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/29/blow-voting-rights-scotus-saves-louisianas-racially-rigged-electoral-map">Blow to Voting Rights</a>, [the Supreme Court] Saves Louisiana's
Racially Rigged Electoral Map.*

 


title: Arizona, pro-life and worst state for child health
uri: Arizona-pro-life-and-worst-state-for-child-health
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Arizona,_pro-life_and_worst_state_for_child_health)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Arizona,_pro-life_and_worst_state_for_child_health)

content:
 
<p>

*Arizona, the most "pro-life" state in America, "one of the <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/06/27/arizona-the-most-pro-life-state-in-america-one-of-the-worst-states-in-the-union-for-child-health.html">worst states in the union</a>" for child health.*
<p>
This is no surprise &mdash; the people who oppose abortion tend to reject
the idea of systematically helping postborn fetuses.

 


title: Ron Johnson admitted participation in fake electors scheme
uri: Ron-Johnson-admitted-participation-in-fake-electors-scheme
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Ron_Johnson_admitted_participation_in_fake_electors_scheme)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Ron_Johnson_admitted_participation_in_fake_electors_scheme)

content:
 
<p>

Senator Ron Johnson <a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2022/06/johnson-i-played-two-minute-role-fake">privately admitted</a> participating in the fake
electors scheme.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Law_to_reduce_single-use_plastic)
title: Law to reduce single-use plastic
uri: Law-to-reduce-single-use-plastic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Law_to_reduce_single-use_plastic)
content:
 
<p>

*California passes first sweeping US law to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/30/california-single-use-plastic-reduce-law-gavin-newsom">reduce single-use plastic</a>.*
<p>
Queensland, Australia, will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/01/queensland-plastics-ban-balloon-releases-and-disposable-coffee-cups-targeted">ban some kinds of single-use plastics</a>.
<p>
Helium is scarce and it is needed for some important uses.
We should not permit it to be used for inflating balloons!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Ecuador_cutting_fossil_fuel_price)
title: Ecuador cutting fossil fuel price
uri: Ecuador-cutting-fossil-fuel-price
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Ecuador_cutting_fossil_fuel_price)
content:
 
<p>

Ecuador has reached a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/01/ecuador-deal-reached-to-end-weeks-of-deadly-protests-and-strikes">harmful deal</a> to end indigenous protests: cutting
the fossil fuel price.
<p>
This eases the immediate suffering of the poor, at the cost of making
future suffering worse for them and everyone else.
<p>
The right way to help poor people cope with various kinds of high prices
is to give them extra money which is <em>independent</em> of the amount of
fossil fuel they use.
<p>
The desl also includes stricter geographic limits on search for and
exploiting fossil fuel.  That part is good.

 


title: Cassidy Hutchinson threatened before testimony
uri: Cassidy-Hutchinson-threatened-before-testimony
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Cassidy_Hutchinson_threatened_before_testimony)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Cassidy_Hutchinson_threatened_before_testimony)

content:
 
<p>

*Mark Meadows's associate <a href="https://profile.theguardian.com/signin?INTCMP=DOTCOM_NEWHEADER_SIGNIN&ABCMP=ab-sign-in&componentEventParams=componentType=identityauthentication&componentId=guardian_signin_header">threatened [Cassidy Hutchinson]</a> before her
 testimony.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Vacancies_in_federal_courts)
title: Vacancies in federal courts
uri: Vacancies-in-federal-courts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Vacancies_in_federal_courts)
content:
 
<p>

Senate Democrats are likely to fail to fill all the vacancies in
federal courts by the end of this year.  If they lose control
of the senate, those vacancies will go unfilled until 2024
and <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/29/lunacy-democrats-risk-running-out-time-confirm-federal-judges">might be filled by Republicans instead</a>.
<p>
Why do they not eliminate the rule that allows individual senators to
block these appointments?  The Republicans did.  Could it be that
Manchin or Sinema is sabotaging this?

 


title: Nonfree software in ATMS and vending machines
uri: Nonfree-software-in-ATMS-and-vending-machines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Nonfree_software_in_ATMS_and_vending_machines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Nonfree_software_in_ATMS_and_vending_machines)

content:
 
<p>

ATMs and vending machines in Russia <a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/01/russian-atms-reject-new-100-ruble-bill-kommersant-a78175">run nonfree software</a> &mdash; the
machines' owners cannot fix them.
<p>
We might argue that it is ok for banks and companies in Russia to be
attacked in this way, as punishment for Putin's invasion of Ukraine;
but I expect the same attack vector exists in most or all other
countries too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Sizewell_C_nuclear_power_plant)
title: Sizewell C nuclear power plant
uri: Sizewell-C-nuclear-power-plant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Sizewell_C_nuclear_power_plant)
content:
 
<p>

Construction of the planned Sizewell C nuclear power plant would quite likely
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/02/could-sizewell-c-nuclear-plant-ruin-minsmere-rspb-suffolk">destroy an adjoining wildlife reserve</a>.
<p>
That is in addition to wasting billions of pounds on inefficient
decarbonization, rather than spending it on much cheaper solar or wind
power together with temporary battery storage.

 


title: Funds for poor or black urban neighborhoods
uri: Funds-for-poor-or-black-urban-neighborhoods
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Funds_for_poor_or_black_urban_neighborhoods)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Funds_for_poor_or_black_urban_neighborhoods)

content:
 
<p>

Federal <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/01/economy/biden-highways-reconnect-cities/index.html">funds will be available</a> for projects to undo the damage done
to poor or black urban neighborhoods in the 1960s by building highways
through them.

 


title: India's list of banned single-use plastic
uri: India-s-list-of-banned-single-use-plastic
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(India's_list_of_banned_single-use_plastic)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(India's_list_of_banned_single-use_plastic)

content:
 
<p>

India has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/01/india/india-bans-single-use-plastic-intl-hnk/index.html">banned a long list</a> of single-use plastic products.

 


title: Global heating havoc on US national parks
uri: Global-heating-havoc-on-US-national-parks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Global_heating_havoc_on_US_national_parks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Global_heating_havoc_on_US_national_parks)

content:
 
<p>

Global heating is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/02/us/national-parks-climate-extreme-weather-impacts/index.html">wreaking ecological havoc</a> on US national parks.
<p>
In some places, all the old trees are dying of various
climate-related causes.

 


title: Myth of abortions leading to psychological problems
uri: Myth-of-abortions-leading-to-psychological-problems
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Myth_of_abortions_leading_to_psychological_problems)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Myth_of_abortions_leading_to_psychological_problems)

content:
 
<p>

Let's get rid of the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/02/health/abortion-myths-mental-health-wellness/index.html">right-wing myth</a> that abortions lead to
psychological problems.  They don't.
<p>
On the other hand, having a baby does sometimes cause them.  (And
non-mental medical problems, too.)  Being compelled to have a baby you
can't afford to take care of is even worse.

 


title: *Boiling Like Frogs in a Pot, Will Democratic Leaders Ever Jump Out?*
uri: Boiling-Like-Frogs-in-a-Pot-Will-Democratic-Leaders-Ever-Jump-Out
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(boiling_frogs_democratic_leaders_jumpout)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(boiling_frogs_democratic_leaders_jumpout)

content:
 
<p>
*Boiling Like Frogs in a Pot, Will 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/28/boiling-frogs-pot-will-democratic-leaders-ever-jump-out">Democratic Leaders Ever Jump Out?</a>*
<p>
I like 
<a href="https://nitter.snopyta.org/AOC/status/1540755940542119938">what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted,</a>
<p>
but it may have a correctable problem.  It appears that "codifying
Roe" may 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/30/opinions/codifying-roe-scotus-abortion-nourse/index.html">be difficult or impossible to do</a>
<p>
in a way that the Supreme
Court extremists can't wreck; but expanding the court to restore Roe
can work, if we don't wait too long.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(global_energy_g7_proposal)
title: A "global energy price cap" could cut Putin's fossil fuel income.
uri: A-global-energy-price-cap-could-cut-Putin-s-fossil-fuel-income
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(global_energy_g7_proposal)
content:
 
<p>
A "global energy price cap" could cut Putin's fossil fuel income.
This article explains how it would function, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/28/global-energy-price-cap-g7-proposal">by conditions on insurance
for oil tankers.</a>
<p>
For this to function, it needs various countries stand firm behind it, and
others go along with it.
<p>
I wonder if China might defeat it by offering insurance without
insisting on the price limit.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(g7_morally_bankrupt_fossil_fuel_lobby)
title: *"Morally Bankrupt" G7 Slammed for "Caving" to Fossil Fuel Lobby on Climate.*
uri: Morally-Bankrupt-G7-Slammed-for-Caving-to-Fossil-Fuel-Lobby-on-Cl
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(g7_morally_bankrupt_fossil_fuel_lobby)
content:
 
<p>
*"Morally Bankrupt" G7 Slammed for 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/28/morally-bankrupt-g7-slammed-caving-fossil-fuel-lobby-climate">"Caving" to Fossil Fuel Lobby on Climate.*</a>
<p>
*Oxfam Condemns G7 for Leaving "Millions to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/28/oxfam-condemns-g7-leaving-millions-starve-global-hunger-surges">Starve" as Global Hunger Surges.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(poland_abortion_law_izabela_sajbor)
title: Poland's abortion restrictions killed Izabela Sajbor
uri: Poland-s-abortion-restrictions-killed-Izabela-Sajbor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(poland_abortion_law_izabela_sajbor)
content:
 
<p>
Poland's abortion restrictions killed Izabela Sajbor.  Her doctors
knew she needed an abortion to survive, but they had to 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/europe/poland-abortion-law-izabela-sajbor-death-intl-cmd/index.html">wait until the
fetal heartbeat ceased; by then, it was too late.</a>
<p>
Pszczyna is around 1-2 hours' drive from the border with the Czech
Republic.  I wonder if it was possible to save her, while she was in
labor but not dying, by putting her in a car and taking her to a Czech
hospital.  Doctors surely would have said it was too risky for her to
travel, and I suppose it was; but I think they were not reckoning with
the risk for her of staying put.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(evidence_contradiction_russian_claims)
title: *Evidence contradicts claims about Kremenchuk*
uri: Evidence-contradicts-claims-about-Kremenchuk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(evidence_contradiction_russian_claims)
content:
 
<p>
*Evidence contradicts [Putinite] 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/evidence-contradicts-russian-claims-about-kremenchuk-mall-attack">claims about Kremenchuk mall attack.*</a>
<p>
I've seen report of a rumor that these missiles are inaccurate, so
maybe the missile was fired at the repair factory and hit the mall by
mistake, If that is true, it means another Putinite claim (that it was
accurate) is false.  And it is a war crime to bombard civilian areas
with inaccurate weapons.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(growing_food_for_fuel_starvation)
title: *Growing Food for Fuel Is Starving People.*
uri: Growing-Food-for-Fuel-Is-Starving-People
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(growing_food_for_fuel_starvation)
content:
 
<p>
*Growing Food for 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/03/growing-food-fuel-starving-people">Fuel Is Starving People.*</a>
<p>
*[biofuels], used on a large scale, &hellip; are no more sustainable than whale oil.*
<p>
Having enough additional food production to feed 2 billion people does
not mean we should be content to see 2 billion more people!  We can't
afford that either way.
<p>
Part of that increment production could enable us to give every living
person enough food.  Part of it we could discontinue, preserving wild
lands or rewilding some.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(stuart_gps_impossible_routes)
title: Stuart and it's problematic driver-guidance map system
uri: Stuart-and-it-s-problematic-driver-guidance-map-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(stuart_gps_impossible_routes)
content:
 
<p>
Stuart, a food delivery subcontracting company which handles delivery
for Just Eat in the UK, uses a driver-guidance map system which
occasionally sends drivers to the wrong place or via impossible
routes. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/02/food-delivery-drivers-fired-after-cut-price-gps-app-sent-them-on-impossible-routes">As a result, they fail to complete the job on time, and
Stuart fires them.</a>
<p>
If violations of workers' rights were punished vigorously, companies
would not dare treat their workers like this.

 


uri: Gov-Newsom-of-California-is-running-ads-in-Florida-condemning-Gov-De
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(gov_newsom_cali_ad_condemn_gov_desantis)

title:
 Gov. Newsom of California is running ads in Florida condemning Gov. Desantis for attacking freedom there. 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(gov_newsom_cali_ad_condemn_gov_desantis)

content:
 
<p>
Governor Newsom of California is running ads in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/04/gavin-newsom-florida-ad-fox-news-ron-desantis">Florida condemning
Governor Desantis for attacking freedom there.</a>

 


title: Murderous drug mafias have led the Netherlands to launch a sort of war on drug mafias.
uri: Murderous-drug-mafias-have-led-the-Netherlands-to-launch-a-sort-of-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(mob_style_shock_netherlands_narco_state)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(mob_style_shock_netherlands_narco_state)

content:
 
<p>
Murderous drug mafias have led the Netherlands to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/03/mob-style-killings-shock-netherlands-into-fighting-descent-into-narco-state">launch a sort of war
on drug mafias.</a>
<p>
I would guess that most of the drugs smuggled through the Netherlands
is headed for other countries in Europe, and only a small fraction is
for Dutch users.  If there were a lawful way to buy cocaine for
personal use, it might pull the rug out from under the mafias.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(dr_zhivagos_plagiarism_row)
title: A subtle but general question in copyright law is the basis of a lawsuit
uri: A-subtle-but-general-question-in-copyright-law-is-the-basis-of-a-lawsu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(dr_zhivagos_plagiarism_row)
content:
 
<p>
A subtle but general question in copyright law is the basis of a
lawsuit: to what extent can a work of fiction embody the conclusions of
historical research about specific people in its 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/03/dr-zhivagos-heroine-takes-centre-stage-in-plagiarism-row">plot without counting
as "plagiarism".</a>
<p>
Viewing copyright as 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html">a system for encouraging authorship,</a>
<p>
the answer is clear: this should be permitted, because prohibiting it does
not serve that goal and instead obstructs it.  A fictional work is not
a substitute for a historical work -- they do not compete.
<p>
However, if you use the propaganda term "property" to conceptualize
copyright, it will bias you in the wrong direction.  You might
unconsciously start from the assumption that authors (in practice,
more often the publishing companies that published their work)
are entitled to maximum power regardless of what effects that has.
<p>
This is one of the reasons to reject and shun the term "intellectual
property."  The other reason is that it's an over generalization about
several disparate and unrelated laws.  If you assume they are similar,
you are likely to 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">misunderstand each of them.</a>

 


title: The habitual use of "smart" phones seems to be weakening people's memory
uri: The-habitual-use-of-smart-phones-seems-to-be-weakening-people-s-memo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(smartphone_ruining_memory_digital_amenesia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(smartphone_ruining_memory_digital_amenesia)

content:
 
<p>
The habitual use of "smart" phones seems to be weakening people's memory,
and is perhaps responsible for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/jul/03/is-your-smartphone-ruining-your-memory-the-rise-of-digital-amenesia">visible changes in brain development.</a>
<p>
What should we do about that?
<p>
Like a true surrender-monkey, the author says it is unthinkable to do
away with them.  The article suggests that taking one-minute breaks
would make the problem less.  Well, one can hope.
<p>
I'm glad to say that I have ever had a "smart" phone.  I know others
who reject this; you can, too!
<p>
I go further than that, personally. All portable phones track your
movements and can be modified remotely to listen to all the
conversations around you, all the time -- so I refuse to carry any
kind of snoop-phone.

 


uri: Texas-educators-fearing-the-law-restricting-schools-from-teaching-a
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(texas_panel_denounced_over_attempt_rebrand_slavery)

title:
 Texas "educators", fearing the law restricting schools from teaching
about racism, proposed to rename slavery as "involuntary relocation". 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(texas_panel_denounced_over_attempt_rebrand_slavery)

content:
 
<p>
Texas "educators", fearing the law restricting schools from teaching
about racism, proposed to rename 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/01/texas-panel-denounced-over-attempt-rebrand-slavery-involuntary-relocation">slavery as "involuntary relocation".</a>
<p>
That reminds me of 
<a href="https://stallman.org/antiglossary.html#detained">"detained".</a>
<p>
and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/antiglossary.html#rendition">"rendition"</a>
two other terms designed to hide the reality of what they refer to.
<p>
If properly taught, comparing voluntary immigration with the transport
of slaves could teach students a lot about what slavery was.  But
teaching that properly would be illegal in Texas -- so they must have
been planning to downplay the truth.
<p>
Historically, slavery <Em>in British colonies</Em> was achieved by forced
transportation of Africans.  But that was not true everywhere else.
Slavery in Spanish colonies started with the indigenous people Spain
had conquered.  It did not involve transporting them, since they were
worked as slaves in the land where they lived.  That didn't make it
less horrible.
<p>
Millennia earlier, the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt also
occurred in the place where they already lived.

 


title: Politicians are finding excuses to increase use of natural gas
uri: Politicians-are-finding-excuses-to-increase-use-of-natural-gas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(energy_crisis_research_shows_burning_gas_not_answer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(energy_crisis_research_shows_burning_gas_not_answer)

content:
 
<p>
Politicians are finding excuses to increase use of natural gas.  They
cite various bogus excuses, but all this can really 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/02/research-shows-burning-more-gas-not-answer-energy-crisis">do is accelerate
global heating.</a>
<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(abortion_care_employer_caution)
title: Some companies say they will cover abortion travel
uri: Some-companies-say-they-will-cover-abortion-travel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(abortion_care_employer_caution)
content:
 
<p>
Depending on your employer to pay for your trip to get an 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/02/no-your-boss-shouldnt-determine-your-access-abortion-care">abortion
puts you in a very vulnerable position.</a>
<p>
In any case, I expect that only a tiny percentage of US workers
work in jobs that are covered by such commitments.  (Can anyone find
out what percentage?)  It's a nice gesture but it isn't a solution.

 


title: New South Wales directs thugs to persistently harass some teenagers (and their relatives)
uri: New-South-Wales-directs-thugs-to-persistently-harass-some-teenagers-(a
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(nsw_police_oppressive_tactics_secretive_blacklist)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(nsw_police_oppressive_tactics_secretive_blacklist)

content:
 
<p>
New South Wales directs thugs to persistently harass some teenagers
(and their relatives) as part of a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/04/nsw-police-accused-of-oppressive-tactics-against-subjects-on-secretive-blacklist">scheme to stop them from repeating
delinquency.</a>

 


title: India stopped a Kashmiri photographer from traveling to France
uri: India-stopped-a-Kashmiri-photographer-from-traveling-to-France
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(indian_authorities_bar_kashmiri_from_flying)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(indian_authorities_bar_kashmiri_from_flying)

content:
 
<p>
India stopped a Kashmiri photographer from traveling to France for an
exhibition of her work, associated with a journalism prize she had
won. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/03/indian-authorities-bar-pulitzer-winning-kashmiri-photojournalist-from-flying-to-france">The government refuses to say why it did this, or even admit
that it did.</a>

 


title: Covid rapidly increasing in New Zealand
uri: Covid-rapidly-increasing-in-New-Zealand
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Covid_rapidly_increasing_in_New_Zealand)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Covid_rapidly_increasing_in_New_Zealand)

content:
 
<p>
  Covid in New Zealand is increasing rapidly, as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/05/new-zealand-faces-new-covid-wave-as-experts-say-moving-on-from-pandemic-is-wishful-thinking">people can get
  reinfected just a few months after having it</a>.  Doctors call for masks,
  self-isolation, and other measures to slow the spread of the disease.

 


title: Thugs adultify black teenagers and children
uri: Thugs-adultify-black-teenagers-and-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Thugs_adultify_black_teenagers_and_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Thugs_adultify_black_teenagers_and_children)

content:
 
<p>
  Thugs perceive black teenagers, and even children, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/05/they-saw-me-as-calculating-not-a-child-how-adultification-leads-to-black-children-being-treated-as-criminals">as more adult than whites of the same age</a> &mdash; and treat them as culpable.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Salmonella_in_UK_meat)
title: Salmonella in UK meat
uri: Salmonella-in-UK-meat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Salmonella_in_UK_meat)
content:
 
<p>
  *Dangerous strain of salmonella <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/05/dangerous-strain-of-salmonella-becoming-more-common-in-uk-meat">becoming more common in UK meat</a>.*
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/05/potentially-deadly-superbug-found-in-british-supermarket-pork">Potentially deadly [drug-resistant bacteria] found</a> in British
  supermarket pork.*
<p>
  Even worse, it was found in pork raised under a system that limits the
  antibiotics they are given.

 


title: Turkey seizes ship carrying Ukrainian grain
uri: Turkey-seizes-ship-carrying-Ukrainian-grain
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Turkey_seizes_ship_carrying_Ukrainian_grain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Turkey_seizes_ship_carrying_Ukrainian_grain)

content:
 
<p>
  *Turkey seizes <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/05/ukraine-russia-turkey-ship-grain-stolen">Russian ship carrying &hellip; Ukrainian grain</a>.*
<p>
  Russia announced that the grain is Ukrainian, so now it must suffer
  the penalty.

 


title: Guards refuse to comply with health and safety rules over religion
uri: Guards-refuse-to-comply-with-health-and-safety-rules-over-religion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Guards_refuse_to_comply_with_health_and_safety_rules_over_religion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Guards_refuse_to_comply_with_health_and_safety_rules_over_religion)

content:
 
<p>
  Toronto homeless shelters require security guards to remove facial
  hair so that N95 masks will fit them well, and effectively prevent
  transmission of Covid-19.  This rule is to protect health and safety
  during Covid waves.
<p>
  Some guards, who are Sikhs, believe that this rule is unfair to them
  because complying with it would go against their religion.  They 
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/05/toronto-sikh-security-guards-fired-facial-hair-policy">contend that the state has no right to enforce rules on them
  that conflict with their religious observance</a>.
<p>
  Such a demand must be refused.  No one is entitled to set aside a
  requirement to protect other people's health in order to practice a
  ritual.  In the end, if you won't do the job as it needs to be done,
  you must leave.
<p>
  In general, we should let people practice their religions when it
  doesn't cause a significant problem.  For instance, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_August_2016_(Burkini_bans_in_France)">if someone wants
  to wear a long bathing suit while swimming, there is no reason to
  forbid that</a>.
<p>
  It is also good to look for compromises, including with the Sikh
  guards.  For instance, a small beard, like the one I wear now, can fit
  under an N95 mask.  (I cut it to fit underneath.)  Such beards should
  be permitted.  Whether that is acceptable to a Sikh, I don't know, but
  if it is, they should be allowed to wear their masks over these
  beards.
<p>
  It is reasonable to insist that an employer offer a worker some other
  job, when a new rule excludes per from per current job.  But people
  with a religion should not thereby acquire more human rights than
  Atheists have.

 


title: Time for Democrats to fear their voters
uri: Time-for-Democrats-to-fear-their-voters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Time_for_Democrats_to_fear_their_voters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Time_for_Democrats_to_fear_their_voters)

content:
 
<p>
  *It's time for Democrats to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/04/democrats-fear-own-voters">fear their own voters</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Xiao_Jianhua_getting_secret_trial)
title: Xiao Jianhua getting secret trial
uri: Xiao-Jianhua-getting-secret-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Xiao_Jianhua_getting_secret_trial)
content:
 
<p>
  Xiao Jianhua, a Canadian billionaire (formerly Chinese) who was
  kidnapped from Hong Kong by Chinese suppression agents in 2017, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/04/tycoon-xiao-jianhua-disappeared-hong-kong-hotel-in-2017-trial-canadian-chinese">is now
  getting a Chinese-style secret trial</a>.
<p>
  The series of kidnappings of Hong Kong businessmen terrified the
  citizens; for Xi, they demonstrated that the other powers would not
  take strong measures to protect freedom in Hong Kong.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(We_should_care_about_sentient_AIs)
title: We should care about sentient AIs
uri: We-should-care-about-sentient-AIs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(We_should_care_about_sentient_AIs)
content:
 
<p>
  Humans must prepare to be ready to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/04/the-big-idea-should-we-care-about-sentient-machines-ai-artificial-intelligence">care about the rights and needs of
  sentient AIs, so that we can respect their rights if and when we meet
  them</a>.

 


title: Thugs in Akron shot and killed black man that ran from them
uri: Thugs-in-Akron-shot-and-killed-black-man-that-ran-from-them
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Thugs_in_Akron_shot_and_killed_black_man_that_ran_from_them__)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Thugs_in_Akron_shot_and_killed_black_man_that_ran_from_them__)

content:
 
<p>
  Thugs in Akron <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/04/jayland-walker-shooting-body-cam-video-outrage">shot and killed a black man who was running away from
  them</a>.
<p>
  He may have been a criminal &mdash; he had left a loaded gun behind in the
  car, and was reportedly wearing a ski mask (in June!).  But he was not
  threatening anyone when they killed him.  Perhaps he deserved to be
  tried and convicted &mdash; we don't know &mdash; but there were no grounds for
  killing him.
<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 will not link to articles that promote it.  But I make
  exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important.
  That article is one of the exceptions.

 


title: Is there a need for official sex or gender status
uri: Is-there-a-need-for-official-sex-or-gender-status
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Is_there_a_need_for_official_sex_or_gender_status)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Is_there_a_need_for_official_sex_or_gender_status)

content:
 
<p>
  Is there a need to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/04/opening-up-the-debate-about-abolition-of-legal-sex-and-gender-status">give each person an official sex (or an official
  gender)</a>?  Maybe not.
<p>
  It may be desirable to distinguish officially between being someone's
  biological mother and being per biological father.

 


title: British Council contractors trapped in Afghanistan
uri: British-Council-contractors-trapped-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(British_Council_contractors_trapped_in_Afghanistan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(British_Council_contractors_trapped_in_Afghanistan)

content:
 
<p>
  *More than 180 British Council contractors left trapped in
  Afghanistan have been given immediate permission by the UK
  government to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/04/fears-for-british-council-staff-trapped-in-afghanistan-despite-breakthrough">apply online to come to Britain, but no hint of how to
  get out of the country safely</a>.*
<p>
  It appears that UK bureaucrats followed their standard practice, with
  all would-be immigrants, of looking for excuses to refuse to let them
  in.  It must have become a habit for them.

 


title: Driest climate in Spain and Portugal for 1,200 years
uri: Driest-climate-in-Spain-and-Portugal-for-1-200-years
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Driest_climate_in_Spain_and_Portugal_for_1,200_years)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Driest_climate_in_Spain_and_Portugal_for_1,200_years)

content:
 
<p>
  *Spain and Portugal <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/04/spain-and-portugal-suffering-driest-climate-for-1200-years-research-shows">suffering driest climate for 1,200 years</a>, research shows.*
  Scientists now know what causes this; it is directly connected with
  global heating.  As this gets worse, it will be a disaster for olive
  and grape production.

 


title: UK's disregard and contempt for asylum seekers' human rights
uri: UK-s-disregard-and-contempt-for-asylum-seekers-human-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(UK's_disregard_and_contempt_for_asylum_seekers'_human_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(UK's_disregard_and_contempt_for_asylum_seekers'_human_rights)

content:
 
<p>
  The UK plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/03/uk-home-office-plans-second-flight-to-deport-asylum-seekers-to-rwanda">try again to send refugees to Rwanda</a>, and do so before
  the start of a planned court hearing about whether it is lawful to do this.
<p>
  That would go beyond disregarding asylum seekers' human rights: it
  would show contempt for the idea that they (or any people) have
  rights.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Record_deforestation)
title: Record deforestation
uri: Record-deforestation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Record_deforestation)
content:
 
<p>
  *Brazil sees <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/04/americas/brazil-amazon-record-deforestation-intl/index.html">record Amazon deforestation in first half of 2022</a>.*

 


title: Urgent: Call on Clarence Thomas to resign
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Clarence-Thomas-to-resign
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Clarence_Thomas_to_resign)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Clarence_Thomas_to_resign)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-justice-clarence-thomas-must-resign-4?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-democracy-for-america&source=">call on Clarence Thomas to resign</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Dollar General to end low pay and unsafe working conditions
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Dollar-General-to-end-low-pay-and-unsafe-working-condi
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Dollar_General_to_end_low_pay_and_unsafe_working_conditions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Dollar_General_to_end_low_pay_and_unsafe_working_conditions)

content:
 
<p>
  US residents (citizens or not): call on Dollar General to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-dollar-general-end-low-pay-and-unsafe-working-conditions?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-more-perfect-union&source=group-more-perfect-union">end low pay and unsafe working conditions</a>.

 


title: Thugs in Akron shot and killed black man that ran from them
uri: 2022-07-07-Thugs-in-Akron-shot-and-killed-black-man-that-ran-from-them
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Thugs_in_Akron_shot_and_killed_black_man_that_ran_from_them)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_July_2022_(Thugs_in_Akron_shot_and_killed_black_man_that_ran_from_them)

content:
 
<p>
  Thugs in Akron <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/04/jayland-walker-shooting-body-cam-video-outrage">shot and killed a black man who was running away from
  them</a>.
<p>
  He may have been a criminal &mdash; he had left a loaded gun behind in the
  car, and was reportedly wearing a ski mask (in June!).  But he was not
  threatening anyone when they killed him.  Perhaps he deserved to be
  tried and convicted &mdash; we don't know &mdash; but there were no grounds for
  killing him.
<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 will not link to articles that promote it.  But I make
  exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important.
  That article is one of the exceptions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Hong_Kong_artists_prosecuted)
title: Hong Kong artists prosecuted
uri: Hong-Kong-artists-prosecuted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Hong_Kong_artists_prosecuted)
content:
 
<p>
  Hong Kong artists published graphic novels about wolves and sheep,
  that could be taken as metaphorically depicting Chinese and Hong
  Kongers.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/06/hong-kong-sedition-trial-childrens-books-sheep-wolves-china">The wolves are now prosecuting them</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Maya_Forstater_won_lawsuit)
title: Maya Forstater won lawsuit
uri: Maya-Forstater-won-lawsuit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Maya_Forstater_won_lawsuit)
content:
 
<p>
  Maya Forstater, who was dismissed from work for maintaining that
  gender identities are meaningless and all that matters is a person's
  biological sex, has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/06/maya-forstater-was-discriminated-against-over-gender-critical-beliefs-tribunal-rules">won a discrimination lawsuit</a>.
<p>
  I disagree with those views, but I defend her right to state views
  that disagree with mine.

 


title: Famine from climate emergency, conflict, and Covid-19
uri: Famine-from-climate-emergency-conflict-and-Covid-19
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Famine_from_climate_emergency,_conflict,_and_Covid-19)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Famine_from_climate_emergency,_conflict,_and_Covid-19)

content:
 
<p>
  *A toxic combination of climate emergency, conflict and Covid is
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jul/06/famine-what-is-it-where-will-it-strike-and-how-should-the-world-respond">pushing some of the poorest countries into an acute hunger crisis</a>.*

 


title: Pretending Covid is over is playing a dangerous game
uri: Pretending-Covid-is-over-is-playing-a-dangerous-game
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Pretending_Covid_is_over_is_playing_a_dangerous_game)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Pretending_Covid_is_over_is_playing_a_dangerous_game)

content:
 
<p>
  *In pretending that Covid is over, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/05/pretending-covid-over-uk-government-virus-risk-public-health-measures">the UK government is playing a dangerous game</a>.*
<p>
  This applies also to the US, and at least most countries in Europe.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Turkey_failed_to_prevent_massacre)
title: Turkey failed to prevent massacre
uri: Turkey-failed-to-prevent-massacre
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Turkey_failed_to_prevent_massacre)
content:
 
<p>
  A group of human rights lawyers accuse Turkey of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jul/05/turkey-should-face-international-court-over-yazidi-genocide-report-says-helena-kennedy">complicity in PISSI's
  massacre of Yazidis</a>, and blame Syria and Iraq for failing to prevent the
  massacre.
<p>
  They certainly did fail, but I wonder if they could in practice have
  done any better than they actually did.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Two_Tory_ministers_resigned)
title: Two Tory ministers resigned
uri: Two-Tory-ministers-resigned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Two_Tory_ministers_resigned)
content:
 
<p>
  After one too many blatant lies, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/05/boris-johnson-indefensible-cabinet-accomplices">two Tory ministers resigned</a> rather
  than continue serving alongside Bogus Johnson.
<p>
  Subsequently, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/05/ill-lose-my-seat-anyway-from-cabinet-to-the-backbenches-how-johnsons-support-ebbed-away">other ministers joined them</a>.  The rest continue
  supporting Bogus, lacking even that minimum level of integrity.  But
  the ones that resigned just now sat still for lie after lie.

 


title: Senator Manchin blocking medicare expansion
uri: Senator-Manchin-blocking-medicare-expansion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Senator_Manchin_blocking_medicare_expansion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Senator_Manchin_blocking_medicare_expansion)

content:
 
<p>
  Senator Manchin is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/23/manchin-pushes-even-more-healthcare-means-testing-west-virginians-suffer">blocking medicare expansion while the poor people
  in his state are suffering without it</a>.

 


title: Republicans trying to falsify last election
uri: Republicans-trying-to-falsify-last-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Republicans_trying_to_falsify_last_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Republicans_trying_to_falsify_last_election)

content:
 
<p>
  Republicans
  are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/30/republican-recruit-poll-workers-election-integrity">recruiting
  poll workers who are trying to falsify the last election</a>.  They
  are unfit for the responsibility of a poll workers &mdash; to
  protect the integrity of the next election &mdash; since they show
  their goal is the exact opposite.
<p>
  Can they be prosecuted for conspiracy to steal the election?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Interview_with_Robert_Kuttner)
title: Interview with Robert Kuttner
uri: Interview-with-Robert-Kuttner
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Interview_with_Robert_Kuttner)
content:
 
<p>
  An <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/07/01/deconstructed-fdr-biden-new-deal-robert-kuttner/">interview
  with the author of the book</a>, <em>Going Big: FDR’s Legacy,
  Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy</em>.
<p>
  The interview starts by reminding Americans of the achievements of
  the New Deal did for the non-rich, then how President Carter and
  subsequent Democrats helped Republicans undo it.  The last topic is
  how to save democracy by fighting for something similar to the New
  Deal.

 


title: (satire) *CEOs Explain How They Will Protect Abortion Rights [for their workers].*
uri: (satire)-CEOs-Explain-How-They-Will-Protect-Abortion-Rights-for-thei
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_((satire)_*CEOs_Explain_How_They_Will_Protect_Abortion_Rights_for_their_workers.*)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_((satire)_*CEOs_Explain_How_They_Will_Protect_Abortion_Rights_for_their_workers.*)

content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *CEOs Explain <a href="https://www.theonion.com/ceos-explain-how-they-will-protect-abortion-rights-1849134877">How They Will Protect Abortion Rights [for
their workers]</a>.*

 


title: Many refugees UK plans to send to Rwanda are trafficking victims
uri: Many-refugees-UK-plans-to-send-to-Rwanda-are-trafficking-victims
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Many_refugees_UK_plans_to_send_to_Rwanda_are_trafficking_victims)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Many_refugees_UK_plans_to_send_to_Rwanda_are_trafficking_victims)

content:
 
<p>
  Many of the refugees that the UK plans to send to Rwanda <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/05/female-trafficking-survivor-targeted-for-uk-removal-to-rwanda-says-charity">are victims
  of trafficking</a>.
<p>
  The fact that one particular refugee is a woman should make no
  difference whatsoever to per human rights, but being a victim of
  trafficking (a form of enslavement) does make a difference.  Victims
  of trafficking must be protected so that they don't fear to report the
  crimes that were committed against them.
<p>
  The general attitude of the current UK government is towards law is,
  "Laws are weapons to hit you with &mdash; not tools for defending your
  rights."  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#25_June_2022_(Tories_plan_to_weaken_European_Court_of_Human_Rights'_authority)">The plan to disempower the European Court of Human Rights</a> demonstrates this.

 


title: Catching Covid-19 twice more than doubles danger
uri: Catching-Covid-19-twice-more-than-doubles-danger
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Catching_Covid-19_twice_more_than_doubles_danger)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Catching_Covid-19_twice_more_than_doubles_danger)

content:
 
<p>
  A preliminary report finds that catching Covid-19 twice (easy to do,
  with the BA.5 variant) <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/health/covid-reinfection-risk/index.html">more than doubles the subsequent danger</a>, compared
  with catching it only once.
<p>
  The study measured how many people died, were hospitalized, or developed
  various long-term medical problems in the subsequent six months.
<p>
  Each reinfection adds to the total risk, and the amount it adds
  increases too.
<p>
  Perhaps this means we need the new vaccines developed for Omicron.  Or
  perhaps we need a different one for BA.5.  Meanwhile, making a
  practice of wearing a mask when you are indoors with other people,
  except for your few closest friends, is something you can do now to
  protect yourself and others.

 


title: Thousands protesting in England against high cost of living
uri: Thousands-protesting-in-England-against-high-cost-of-living
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Thousands_protesting_in_England_against_high_cost_of_living)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Thousands_protesting_in_England_against_high_cost_of_living)

content:
 
<p>
  Thousands protested in England <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/jul/05/this-was-just-the-warning-fuel-price-protesters-plan-further-action">against the high cost of living</a>,
  which many people with low incomes cannot afford.
  Sad to say, they misidentified the problem as "high fuel prices",
  which means that their public message is a demand to make fossil fuel
  cheap.  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_May_2022_(Planet_roaster_companies_building_carbon_bombs)">That</a> <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#9_February_2022_(The_pollution_paradox)">way</a> <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-jul-oct.html#6_September_2021_(Big_benefits_from_coal_companies)">lies</a> <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#17_February_2020_(Deaths_by_toxic_pollution)">death</a>!
<p>
  Anyway, it's not only fossil fuel that low-income Britons can't
  afford.  Inflation affects more or less everything.  The right
  solution, to give them enough extra income that they can afford
  their living expenses, will address all of that.
<p>
  Naturally, the Tories aim to repress any protest that people will
  notice.  They recently passed new laws to do this.  I wonder how
  many of these protesters supported the Tories for that, while Tory
  repression was aimed at environmentalists.

 


title: (satire) *Conservatives Explain Why They Oppose Abortions.*
uri: (satire)-Conservatives-Explain-Why-They-Oppose-Abortions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_((satire)_*Conservatives_Explain_Why_They_Oppose_Abortions.*)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_((satire)_*Conservatives_Explain_Why_They_Oppose_Abortions.*)

content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Conservatives Explain <a href="https://www.theonion.com/conservatives-explain-why-they-oppose-abortions-1849135232">Why They Oppose Abortions</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Hell_on_Earth_from_global_heating)
title: Hell on Earth from global heating
uri: Hell-on-Earth-from-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Hell_on_Earth_from_global_heating)
content:
 
<p>
  Global heating means, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/05/hell-earth-tired-metaphor-increasingly-accurate-description">literally, hell on Earth</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Ways to restore abortion rights
uri: Urgent-Ways-to-restore-abortion-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Urgent:_Ways_to_restore_abortion_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_July_2022_(Urgent:_Ways_to_restore_abortion_rights)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: Call for Democrats to <a href="https://act.grassrootslaw.org/go/9654">consider these several
  ways of restoring abortion rights</a>.

 


title: Broken food system perpetuating hunger
uri: Broken-food-system-perpetuating-hunger
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Broken_food_system_perpetuating_hunger)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Broken_food_system_perpetuating_hunger)

content:
 
<p>
  Oxfam: *<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2022/07/06/oxfam-reaction-fao-sofi-report-2022-broken-food-system-perpetuating-hunger">A broken food system is perpetuating hunger</a>.*
<p>
  We must not overlook <a href="https://www.stallman.org/articles/children.html">the role of population growth in the
  malfunctioning of the system of supporting humans</a>.  Growing enough
  food and distributing it to those who need it, while protecting
  wildlife, will be much easier for a smaller population.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Democracy_vs._Plutocracy)
title: Democracy vs. Plutocracy
uri: Democracy-vs-Plutocracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Democracy_vs._Plutocracy)
content:
 
<p>
  George Monbiot: *It's democracy v plutocracy &mdash; this is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/06/power-wealthy-earth-politics-democracy-plutocracy">the endgame for
  our planet</a>.*
<p>
  *It's as if, when ministers go to bed, they ask themselves, "What have
  I done to make the UK a worse place today?"*

 


title: Texas Department of Public Safety accused of organizing cover up
uri: Texas-Department-of-Public-Safety-accused-of-organizing-cover-up
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Texas_Department_of_Public_Safety_accused_of_organizing_cover_up)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Texas_Department_of_Public_Safety_accused_of_organizing_cover_up)

content:
 
<p>
  The mayor of Uvalde accused the upper management of the Texas
  Department of Public Safety of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/us/texas-uvalde-mayor-don-mclaughlin/index.html">organizing to cover up the cause of the
  incompetent reaction of the "security" forces</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Europe_high_speed_rail_network)
title: Europe high speed rail network
uri: Europe-high-speed-rail-network
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Europe_high_speed_rail_network)
content:
 
<p>
  European countries are considering a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/europe-high-speed-rail-network/index.html">continent-wide high speed rail network</a>.
<p>
  This is a very good thing to do; but to get the full benefit of it, we
  must campaign against demanding ID from each passenger.  Several
  countries, including Spain and Italy, imposed that requirement as a
  measure for tracking Covid-19 cases &mdash; but now that there are so many
  cases, no country in Europe is really trying to find them all.
  That means this anti-freedom policy is no longer justified.

 


title: Republicans colluding to tank global tax deal
uri: Republicans-colluding-to-tank-global-tax-deal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Republicans_colluding_to_tank_global_tax_deal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Republicans_colluding_to_tank_global_tax_deal)

content:
 
<p>
  *[Senate Republicans] Colluding With Autocratic Orb&aacute;n Government to
  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/06/shameful-gop-colluding-autocratic-orban-government-tank-global-tax-deal">Tank Global Tax Deal</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Impending_election_doom)
title: Impending election doom
uri: Impending-election-doom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Impending_election_doom)
content:
 
<p>
  *Are Democrats Really <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/28/are-democrats-really-clueless-about-impending-election-doom">Clueless About Impending Election Doom</a>?*
<p>
  This criticism applies to the plutocratist Democrats, but we should
  not hold it against the progressive Democrats.

 


title: Possibility or resuming non-nuclear deal is ebbing away
uri: Possibility-or-resuming-non-nuclear-deal-is-ebbing-away
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Possibility_or_resuming_non-nuclear_deal_is_ebbing_away)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Possibility_or_resuming_non-nuclear_deal_is_ebbing_away)

content:
 
<p>
  The possibility of resuming Obama's non-nuclear deal with Iran is
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/30/iran-accused-of-making-maximalist-demands-in-nuclear-deal-talks">fast ebbing away</a>.
<p>
  The blame for this falls on the wrecker, who cancelled the deal for
  his own personal ambition (the main reason for everything political he
  does).
<p>
  Secondarily, it seems to fall on the Iranian hard-liners, for
  preferring to make Iran a nuclear power, and on Biden, who gave
  insufficient priority to avoiding that.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Russia_as_terrorist_state)
title: Russia as terrorist state
uri: Russia-as-terrorist-state
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Russia_as_terrorist_state)
content:
 
<p>
  Given the repeated acts of terror (war against civilians) carried out by
  the Putin forces, we must treat Russia as a terrorist state.
<p>
  I don't think that this offers a magic way to alter the direction of
  the war.  I don't think that the countries which now do business with
  Russia will pay attention.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Shell_evades_sanctions)
title: Shell evades sanctions
uri: Shell-evades-sanctions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Shell_evades_sanctions)
content:
 
<p>
  Shell companies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/30/europe-syria-phosphates-trade-assad">systematically evade sanctions to buy phosphates</a> in
  Syria and sell them in Europe.

 


title: People from Baloch minority killed or disappeared
uri: People-from-Baloch-minority-killed-or-disappeared
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(People_from_Baloch_minority_killed_or_disappeared)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(People_from_Baloch_minority_killed_or_disappeared)

content:
 
<p>
  Pakistan's suppression forces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jul/06/pakistan-5000-people-disappeared-missing-balochistan">regularly kill or disappear people of
  the Baloch minority</a>.  They mete out cruelty to peaceful protesters.
<p>
  There has long been a separatist movement among the Balochi, but
  extrajudicial killing and kidnapping are not a legitimate response.

 


title: Urgent: Do not insure East African Crude Oil Pipeline
uri: Urgent-Do-not-insure-East-African-Crude-Oil-Pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Urgent:_Do_not_insure_East_African_Crude_Oil_Pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Urgent:_Do_not_insure_East_African_Crude_Oil_Pipeline)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Marsh insurance not
  to <a href="https://act.350.org/sign/dont-insure-eacop-marsh-letter-202206/">insure
  the East African Crude Oil Pipeline</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Demand accountability from executive agencies for supporting war crimes in Yemen
uri: Urgent-Demand-accountability-from-executive-agencies-for-supporting-w
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Urgent:_Demand_accountability_from_executive_agencies_for_supporting_war_crimes_in_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Urgent:_Demand_accountability_from_executive_agencies_for_supporting_war_crimes_in_Yemen)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/accountability_war_crimes_Yemen">demand accountability from executive
  agencies for supporting war crimes in Yemen</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Legislate to protect same-sex marriage
uri: Urgent-Legislate-to-protect-same-sex-marriage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Urgent:_Legislate_to_protect_same-sex_marriage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Urgent:_Legislate_to_protect_same-sex_marriage)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress
  to <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/save-marriage-equality-from-the-supreme-court?link_id=2&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-sign-now-save-marriage-equality-from-the-supreme-court&email_referrer=email_1588898___subject_2054752&email_subject=sign-now-save-marriage-equality-from-the-supreme-court">legislate
  to protect same-sex marriage</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(ben_jerry_deal_occupied_territories)
title: Ben and Jerry criticizes deal that will resume sales in occupied territories
uri: Ben-and-Jerry-criticizes-deal-that-will-resume-sales-in-occupied-terri
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(ben_jerry_deal_occupied_territories)
content:
 
<p>
Unilever treated the moral objections of the human Ben and Jerry to
selling "Ben and Jerry's" ice cream in Israel's colonies in
Palestinian territory as an inconvenience and found a simple fix:
selling the business, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/30/ben-jerrys-criticises-deal-that-will-resume-sales-in-occupied-territories
">in Israel (including its colonies), to another
company.</a>
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/05/ben-jerrys-sues-unilever-israeli-deal">Ben and Jerry are suing Unilever to stop this.</a>
<p>
I agree with them in supporting Israel but not its occupation of Palestine.
<p>
It is not unusual for supporters of Israel's occupation policy to
accuse "antisemitism" when anyone criticizes that policy.  This was used
to return the UK Labour Party to plutocratist control by 
<a href="https://www.medialens.org/2020/the-people-have-spoken-bastards-leaked-labour-report-shows-partys-own-senior-staff-acted-to-keep-corbyn-out-of-power/">kicking out
Corbyn and his supporters,</a>
<p>
and AIPAC, the pro-Israel-occupation lobbying group, is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/aipac-pro-israel-group-backs-insurrectionist-republicans">now funding
the campaigns of insurrectionist US politicians.</a>

 


title: Australia has dropped the prosecution of Bernard Collaery
uri: Australia-has-dropped-the-prosecution-of-Bernard-Collaery
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(aus_dropped_prosecution_bernard_collaery)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(aus_dropped_prosecution_bernard_collaery)

content:
 
<p>
Australia has dropped the prosecution of Bernard Collaery, who was
accused of helping to reveal that Australia had bugged the Timorese
negotiating team.  Australia was negotiating at the time the division
of oil rights 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/07/prosecution-of-whistleblower-lawyer-bernard-collaery-dropped-after-decision-by-attorney-general">between East Timor and Australia.</a>
<p>
However, prosecution of other whistleblowers that revealed Australian
government wrongdoing continues. 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">This threatens human rights and
democracy.</a>

 


uri: European-Parliament-approved-a-plan-to-direct-some-funds-meant-for-dec
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(eu_backs_industry_push_gas_nuclear_green)

title:
 European Parliament approved a plan to direct some funds
meant for decarbonization into natural gas development instead. 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(eu_backs_industry_push_gas_nuclear_green)

content:
 
<p>
 The European Parliament approved a plan to direct some of the funds
 meant for decarbonization into 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/06/betrayal-uproar-after-eu-backs-industry-push-label-gas-and-nuclear-green">natural gas development instead.</a>
<p>
 Counting the inevitable methane leaks, 
<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2016/01/methane-madness-porter-ranch-only-tip-iceberg-exposing-catastrophic-impacts-natural-gas/">natural gas is as bad as coal.</a>
<p>
 The same plan allows for spending on nuclear power plants, too.  While
 they do not emit greenhouse gas, they create the danger of nuclear
 accidents. Because of their great expense, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/27/uks-nuclear-sites-costing-taxpayers-astronomical-sums-say-mps">this is a terribly
inefficient way to decarbonize.</a>

 


title: How the Federal government will help states punish abortion using our phones
uri: How-the-Federal-government-will-help-states-punish-abortion-using-our
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(fed_gov_help_states_punish_abortion_patients_using_phone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(fed_gov_help_states_punish_abortion_patients_using_phone)

content:
 
<p>
 The Federal government habitually helps state governments get personal
 data from databases, and from people's computers.  If it doesn't take
 action to avoid this, it will help states 
<a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/3543721-federal-government-will-help-states-punish-abortion-using-our-phones/">find abortion patients or
abortion providers.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(anger_boris_johnson_pm_democracy)
title: Don't waste all your anger on Boris Johnson
uri: Don-t-waste-all-your-anger-on-Boris-Johnson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(anger_boris_johnson_pm_democracy)
content:
 
<p>
 *Don't waste all your anger on Boris Johnson 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/07/anger-boris-johnson-prime-minister-democracy">&mdash; save some for his enablers.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(weatherwatch_growing_food_in_plastic)
title: Covering fields of crops with plastic sheets increased local temperatures
uri: Covering-fields-of-crops-with-plastic-sheets-increased-local-temperatu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(weatherwatch_growing_food_in_plastic)
content:
 
<p>
 Covering fields of crops with plastic sheets increased local
 temperatures by around 0.7°C and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/07/weatherwatch-growing-food-in-plastic-is-changing-the-weather">humidity by nearly 25%.</a>
<p>
 The large-scale use of this practice changes the region's weather.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(UK_thugs_protect_other_thugs)
title: UK thugs protect other thugs
uri: UK-thugs-protect-other-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(UK_thugs_protect_other_thugs)
content:
 
<p>
  It seems that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/30/watchdogs-condemn-police-response-domestic-abuse-claims-against-officers">UK thugs protect other thugs from accusations of
  domestic violence</a> by intimidating the accusers.

 


title: Surveillance will never protect kids from shootings
uri: Surveillance-will-never-protect-kids-from-shootings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Surveillance_will_never_protect_kids_from_shootings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Surveillance_will_never_protect_kids_from_shootings)

content:
 
<p>
  *School Surveillance <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/school-surveillance-never-protect-kids-shootings/">Will Never Protect Kids From Shootings</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Yulia_Paievska_tortured_persistently)
title: Yulia Paievska tortured persistently
uri: Yulia-Paievska-tortured-persistently
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Yulia_Paievska_tortured_persistently)
content:
 
<p>
  Prominent Ukrainian medic Yulia Paievska was captured by the Putin
  forces in March, because they recognized her as somewhat famous.  Then
  they tortured her persistently,
  constantly demanding she admit to some Nazi connections.
<p>
  Why don't the Putin forces grab some Republicans from the US instead?
  Those may be glad to admit they are Nazis.
<p>
  The <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Mother_wounded_shielding_baby_from_missile_strike)">last journalists</a> reporting from Mariupol were told, "Get out &mdash; if
  they capture you, they will torture you to say that your reporting was
  fake."

 


title: Offering too much to free US citizens would more citizens in danger
uri: Offering-too-much-to-free-US-citizens-would-more-citizens-in-danger
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Offering_too_much_to_free_US_citizens_would_more_citizens_in_danger)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Offering_too_much_to_free_US_citizens_would_more_citizens_in_danger)

content:
 
<p>
  Offering too much to other countries to free US citizens <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/07/politics/griner-whelan-russia-biden-analysis/index.html">would put
  more US citizens in danger</a>.
<p>
  In my view, a patriotic citizen (of any country) does not ask its
  government to procure per release from a foreign prison through
  concessions that could affect the well-being or interests of the
  country.  I am surprised by the expectation that the head of state
  personally involve perself in such negotiations.

 


title: Biden's officials refuse to decriminalize marijuana
uri: Biden-s-officials-refuse-to-decriminalize-marijuana
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Biden's_officials_refuse_to_decriminalize_marijuana)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Biden's_officials_refuse_to_decriminalize_marijuana)

content:
 
<p>
  Biden's officials have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/06/warren-sanders-and-others-blast-bidens-failure-federal-cannabis-policy">refused to decriminalize marijuana</a>
  despite pressure from some senators.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Cory_Doctorow:_The_Swerve)
title: Cory Doctorow: The Swerve
uri: Cory-Doctorow-The-Swerve
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Cory_Doctorow:_The_Swerve)
content:
 
<p>
  Cory Doctorow: <a href="https://locusmag.com/2022/07/cory-doctorow-the-swerve/">The Swerve</a>.
<p>
  With climate disaster approaching, making dangerous efforts to stop
  the disaster is now less dangerous than not making them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_will_step_down)
title: Bogus Johnson will step down
uri: Bogus-Johnson-will-step-down
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_will_step_down)
content:
 
<p>
  Bogus Johnson said he will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/07/gone-but-not-gone-boris-johnson-quits-but-clings-on-to-power">step down as prime minister</a> when the Tory
  party decides who to appoint in his place.  That will take time.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(New_Florida_curriculum)
title: New Florida curriculum
uri: New-Florida-curriculum
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(New_Florida_curriculum)
content:
 
<p>
  Florida adopted a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/07/02/desantis-civics-separation-church-state/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">new civics curriculum; now it is training teachers
  to teach it</a>.  The training pushes distorted history and establishment
  of Christianity.

 


title: Indian government censors critical tweets
uri: Indian-government-censors-critical-tweets
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Indian_government_censors_critical_tweets)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Indian_government_censors_critical_tweets)

content:
 
<p>
  *Indian government censors tweets critical of Indian [government's]
  internet censorship.*
<p>
  The tweets in question were made by Freedom House,
  which evaluates countries on their respect for freedom.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Global_heating_and_methane)
title: Global heating and methane
uri: Global-heating-and-methane
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Global_heating_and_methane)
content:
 
<p>
  Global heating may be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/05/global-heating-causes-methane-growth-four-times-faster-than-thought-study">slowing the reaction that removes methane from
  the atmosphere</a>, even as it increases some production of methane.
<p>
  If that's true, we may be doomed.

 


title: Consequences of defying norms of honesty
uri: Consequences-of-defying-norms-of-honesty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Consequences_of_defying_norms_of_honesty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Consequences_of_defying_norms_of_honesty)

content:
 
<p>
  A politician who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/04/boris-johnson-pm-damage-go-disaster-meltdown">openly defies norms of honesty and gets away with that
  permanently erodes those norms</a>.
  Especially when he gets away with it
  because his party chooses to sacrifice the norms to keep him in office.
  His eventual defeat does not restore the lost practices of honesty, nor
  the lost trust that depended on those practices.
<p>
  This, for example, the persistent and unlimited falsification of the wrecker
  taught most Republicans to support lies when they lead to victory.

 


title: Urgent: Protect passengers and crack down on airline malpractice
uri: Urgent-Protect-passengers-and-crack-down-on-airline-malpractice
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_passengers_and_crack_down_on_airline_malpractice)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_passengers_and_crack_down_on_airline_malpractice)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Transportation Secretary Buttigieg to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/usdot-airlines/?t=1001&akid=29270%2E96703%2EA4hL4I">protect
passengers and crack down on airline malpractice.</a>
<p>
It's much less painful to find, in advance, that no space is available for
your trip, than to get a ticket but learn, at the airport, that you can't
actually travel.  Fining airlines for the latter will teach airlines not to
schedule more flights than they can actually operate.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Urgent:_Reform_the_Supreme_Court)
title: Urgent: Reform the Supreme Court
uri: Urgent-Reform-the-Supreme-Court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Urgent:_Reform_the_Supreme_Court)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-its-time-to-reform-the-supreme-court?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-the-people-united&source=direct_link">
reform the Supreme Court</a>.
<p>
I intentionally signed this petition as well as the more specific
petition to expand the court, because other forms of reform would
also do the job.

 


title: Urgent: Do not nominate antiabortion crusader for federal judgeship
uri: Urgent-Do-not-nominate-antiabortion-crusader-for-federal-judgeship
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Urgent:_Do_not_nominate_antiabortion_crusader_for_federal_judgeship)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Urgent:_Do_not_nominate_antiabortion_crusader_for_federal_judgeship)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden <a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/antiabortion_judge/">not to nominate antiabortion crusader Chad
Meredith for a federal judgeship</a>.
<p>
The Democrats should deny Republican senators veto power over judges
from their own states, just as Republican senators did before.  To
insist on fighting according to rules that your enemy blatantly
ignores is to be a chump.

 


title: Urgent: Repeal the 2002 authorization for the use of military force against Iraq
uri: Urgent-Repeal-the-2002-authorization-for-the-use-of-military-force-ag
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Urgent:_Repeal_the_2002_authorization_for_the_use_of_military_force_against_Iraq)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Urgent:_Repeal_the_2002_authorization_for_the_use_of_military_force_against_Iraq)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/go/34272?c0=2002_aumf_july.Cv4ArN">repeal the 2002 Authorization for
the Use of Military Force Against Iraq</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on the Senate not to recess while judicial vacancies remain
uri: Urgent-Call-on-the-Senate-not-to-recess-while-judicial-vacancies-rema
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_Senate_not_to_recess_while_judicial_vacancies_remain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_Senate_not_to_recess_while_judicial_vacancies_remain)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-the-senate-no-recess-with-judicial-vacancies?link_id=0&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-tell-the-senate-no-recess-with-judicial-vacancies&email_referrer=email_1596242___subject_2063495&email_subject=tell-the-senate-no-recess-until-every-judicial-vacancy-is-filled">call on the Senate not to recess while judicial
  vacancies remain</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Uber's_kill_switch)
title: Uber's "kill switch"
uri: Uber-s-kill-switch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Uber's_kill_switch)
content:
 
<p>
  Guber <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-bosses-told-staff-use-kill-switch-raids-stop-police-seeing-data">implemented
  a command (the "kill switch") to shut off access to its data base
  from headquarters computers</a>, so that government investigators
  couldn't determine whether the company was breaking taxi
  regulations.  The company used it in France, the Netherlands, India
  and Hungary, as well as Canada and Hong Kong.  The highest
  executives explicitly gave the command for this.  Even though they
  are no longer working for Guber, they should be prosecuted and
  punished for this crime.
<p>
  As for Uber, <a href="http://www.stallman.org/uber.html">let's
  punish it for all its wrongs</a> by not giving it our money.

 


title: Indigenous leaders getting shot for trying to stop illegal gold mines
uri: Indigenous-leaders-getting-shot-for-trying-to-stop-illegal-gold-mines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Indigenous_leaders_getting_shot_for_trying_to_stop_illegal_gold_mines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Indigenous_leaders_getting_shot_for_trying_to_stop_illegal_gold_mines)

content:
 
<p>
  Illegal gold miners in Venezuela are shooting the indigenous leaders
  that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/07/venezuela-indigenous-leader-killed-amazon-defenders">are trying to keep their land free from gold mining and the
  poisonous mercury it releases</a>.

 


title: Restoring abortion access won't be easy
uri: Restoring-abortion-access-won-t-be-easy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Restoring_abortion_access_won't_be_easy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Restoring_abortion_access_won't_be_easy)

content:
 
<p>
  *Restoring US abortion access won't be easy &mdash; but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/09/restoring-us-abortion-access-wont-be-easy-but-we-need-leaders-who-will-try">we need leaders who
  will try</a>.*

 


title: Urgent: Preserve the millionaire's surcharge
uri: Urgent-Preserve-the-millionaire-s-surcharge
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Urgent:_Preserve_the_millionaire's_surcharge)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Urgent:_Preserve_the_millionaire's_surcharge)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: phone your senators and urge them
  to <a href="https://surtax.org/">preserve the millionaire's
  surcharge</a> (passed by the house) in the tax and investment
  package.
<p>
  The Capitol Switchboard number
  is <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>.
  If you call, please spread the word!

 


title: Plant-based meat is better climate investment
uri: Plant-based-meat-is-better-climate-investment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Plant-based_meat_is_better_climate_investment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Plant-based_meat_is_better_climate_investment)

content:
 
<p>
  *Plant-based meat by far <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/07/plant-based-meat-by-far-the-best-climate-investment-report-finds">the best climate investment</a>, report finds.*

 


title: Construction companies knew they made firetraps
uri: Construction-companies-knew-they-made-firetraps
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Construction_companies_knew_they_made_firetraps)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Construction_companies_knew_they_made_firetraps)

content:
 
<p>
  British construction companies and their
  suppliers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/10/the-guardian-view-on-the-grenfell-inquiry-a-slow-march-to-culpability">knew
  that they were building firetraps, and went ahead uncaring</a>.
  Will Tory ministers trouble to make them stop?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Surveillance)
title: Surveillance
uri: 2022-07-11-Surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Surveillance)
content:
 
<p>
  *Are You <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/roe-abortion-sex-worker-policy/">Ready to Be Surveilled Like a Sex Worker</a>?*
<p>
  FOSTA/SESTA's censorship provides a model for how to quash
  discussion of abortions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Normal_climate_is_dead)
title: Normal climate is dead
uri: Normal-climate-is-dead
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Normal_climate_is_dead)
content:
 
<p>
  *Our "Normal" Climate Is Dead &mdash; <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/07/our-normal-climate-dead-now-we-live-emergency">Now We Live in an Emergency</a>.*

 


title: Teachers and nurses beyond ready to strike or quit
uri: Teachers-and-nurses-beyond-ready-to-strike-or-quit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Teachers_and_nurses_beyond_ready_to_strike_or_quit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Teachers_and_nurses_beyond_ready_to_strike_or_quit)

content:
 
<p>
  Teachers and nurses in the UK are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/10/teachers-and-nurses-ready-to-quit-over-delays-to-pay-rises-union-leaders-warn">beyond ready to strike</a>.  Many are more than ready to quit.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Diptheria_bacteria)
title: Diptheria bacteria
uri: Diptheria-bacteria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Diptheria_bacteria)
content:
 
<p>
  Diptheria bacteria are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/09/it-is-a-tragedy-the-return-of-diptheria-in-australia">now spreading in Australia due to anti-vax
  superstition</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Biden's_executive_order_on_abortion)
title: Biden's executive order on abortion
uri: Biden-s-executive-order-on-abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Biden's_executive_order_on_abortion)
content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/10/biden-executive-order-abortion-white-house">Biden's executive order on abortion</a> is better than nothing. But not much better.*

 


title: National store chain agreed to stop using facial recognition
uri: National-store-chain-agreed-to-stop-using-facial-recognition
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(National_store_chain_agreed_to_stop_using_facial_recognition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(National_store_chain_agreed_to_stop_using_facial_recognition)

content:
 
<p>
  After public criticism, <a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/the-good-guys-to-pause-recording-customers-faceprints-following-backlash/113c5e59-42ff-4925-ae3b-755850f2f143">a national store chain in Australia agreed to
  stop using facial recognition on customers</a>.
<p>
  Sad that the organization that criticized this undermined itself by
  suggesting that maybe this tracking would not be so bad if the company
  had better informed customers about it.
<p>
  If the customers were well informed about the practice, the company
  could argue that they had implicitly consented to being tracked.  That
  means nothing &mdash; it is <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">no excuse for establishing universal tracking</a>!
  Even explicit consent from millions of people would be no excuse.
  Systematic tracking of people is the soil in which repression grows,
  and that is an injustice to everyone.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Deep-sea_mining)
title: Deep-sea mining
uri: 2022-07-11-Deep-sea-mining
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Deep-sea_mining)
content:
 
<p>
  Deep-sea mining is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/08/nowhere-is-free-from-noise-deep-sea-mining-threat-to-marine-mammals">noisy, and the noise can travel for hundreds of
  miles in water</a>.  It can interfere with marine animals' reproduction
  or safety, and thus disrupt ecosystems.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Prosecutions_for_abortion_drugs)
title: Prosecutions for abortion drugs
uri: Prosecutions-for-abortion-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Prosecutions_for_abortion_drugs)
content:
 
<p>
  American women have <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/166312/criminalization-abortion-stillbirths-miscarriages">already been prosecuted for taking abortion drugs</a>.

 


title: Russian ship carrying stolen Ukrainian grain released
uri: Russian-ship-carrying-stolen-Ukrainian-grain-released
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Russian_ship_carrying_stolen_Ukrainian_grain_released)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Russian_ship_carrying_stolen_Ukrainian_grain_released)

content:
 
<p>
  Turkey arrested a Russian ship carrying stolen Ukrainian grain,
  but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/07/ukraine-summons-turkish-ambassador-over-stolen-grain-ship">now it has released the ship</a>, for unstated reasons.

 


title: Curing bacon with nitrites need banned
uri: Curing-bacon-with-nitrites-need-banned
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Curing_bacon_with_nitrites_need_banned)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Curing_bacon_with_nitrites_need_banned)

content:
 
<p>
  Scientists call for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/jul/08/nitrites-in-bacon-scientists-mps-call-for-uk-ban-cancer-fears">banning the use of nitrites in curing bacon</a>.
  Other chemicals do the job equally well and are safer.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Maria_Ressa_convicted_of_libel)
title: Maria Ressa convicted of libel
uri: Maria-Ressa-convicted-of-libel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Maria_Ressa_convicted_of_libel)
content:
 
<p>
  Journalist Maria Ressa <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/philippines-nobel-laureate-maria-ressa-loses-appeal-against-cyber-libel-conviction">has been convicted of libel (which is a crime
  in the Philippines), and could be sentenced to years in prison</a>.
<P>
  As for freedom of the press, it has already been sentenced to death in
  the Philippines.

 


title: Municipal official sentenced for criticizing Ukraine invasion
uri: Municipal-official-sentenced-for-criticizing-Ukraine-invasion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Municipal_official_sentenced_for_criticizing_Ukraine_invasion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Municipal_official_sentenced_for_criticizing_Ukraine_invasion)

content:
 
<p>
  Putin's henchmen have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/moscow-councillor-jailed-seven-years-criticising-ukraine-war-alexei-gorinov">sentenced a municipal official to 7 years in prison</a>
  for criticizing the invasion of Ukraine.
<p>
  I wonder precisely what "information" they claim is "false"?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Impact_of_long-range_artillery)
title: Impact of long-range artillery
uri: Impact-of-long-range-artillery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Impact_of_long-range_artillery)
content:
 
<p>
  *Ukraine forces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/07/ukraine-forces-finally-seeing-impact-western-arms-zelenskiy">finally seeing impact of western [long-range
  artillery]</A>, says Zelenskiy.*

 


title: Right-wing scheme to allow legislatures to disregard state constitutions for federal elections
uri: Right-wing-scheme-to-allow-legislatures-to-disregard-state-constitutio
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Right-wing_scheme_to_allow_legislatures_to_disregard_state_constitutions_for_federal_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Right-wing_scheme_to_allow_legislatures_to_disregard_state_constitutions_for_federal_elections)

content:
 
<p>
  The right-wing scheme to allow state legislatures to disregard state
  constitutions for federal elections <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/07/us-supreme-court-state-legislature-power">completely contradicts the ideas
  of "federalism" which the right-wing politicians claim to base their
  thinking on</a>.

 


title: Offering too much to free US citizens would put more citizens in danger
uri: Offering-too-much-to-free-US-citizens-would-put-more-citizens-in-dange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Offering_too_much_to_free_US_citizens_would_put_more_citizens_in_danger)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_July_2022_(Offering_too_much_to_free_US_citizens_would_put_more_citizens_in_danger)

content:
 
<p>
  Offering too much to other countries to free US citizens <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/07/politics/griner-whelan-russia-biden-analysis/index.html">would put
  more US citizens in danger</a>.
<p>
  In my view, a patriotic citizen (of any country) does not ask its
  government to procure per release from a foreign prison through
  concessions that could affect the well-being or interests of the
  country.  I am surprised by the expectation that the head of state
  personally involve perself in such negotiations.

 


title: Nonfree software in ATMs and vending machines
uri: Nonfree-software-in-ATMs-and-vending-machines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Nonfree_software_in_ATMs_and_vending_machines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_July_2022_(Nonfree_software_in_ATMs_and_vending_machines)

content:
 
<p>

ATMs and vending machines in Russia <a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/01/russian-atms-reject-new-100-ruble-bill-kommersant-a78175">run nonfree software</a> &mdash; the
machines' owners cannot fix them.
<p>
We might argue that it is ok for banks and companies in Russia to be
attacked in this way, as punishment for Putin's invasion of Ukraine;
but I expect the same attack vector exists in most or all other
countries too.

 


title: Roe v Wade reversal vs Brown v Board of Education
uri: Roe-v-Wade-reversal-vs-Brown-v-Board-of-Education
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Roe_v_Wade_reversal_vs_Brown_v_Board_of_Education)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Roe_v_Wade_reversal_vs_Brown_v_Board_of_Education)

content:
 
<p>

Reversing Roe v Wade was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/09/opinions/scotus-dobbs-faulty-comparison-brown-snyder/index.html">nothing at all</a> like the historic Brown v
Board of Education decision that ruled out "separate but equal"
education.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Modelling_middle-size_nuclear_war)
title: Modelling middle-size nuclear war
uri: Modelling-middle-size-nuclear-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Modelling_middle-size_nuclear_war)
content:
 
<p>

Modelling suggests that a middle-size nuclear war (India and Pakistan,
perhaps) would cause <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/08/model-shows-nuclear-war-would-cause-millennia-long-little-ice-age">a global ice age</a> that would last centuries.
<p>
Most life in the ocean would starve, and so would humans.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Mines_in_the_Black_Sea)
title: Mines in the Black Sea
uri: Mines-in-the-Black-Sea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Mines_in_the_Black_Sea)
content:
 
<p>

Mines in the Black Sea are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/11/sea-mines-ukraine-waters-russia-war-black-sea">endangering all the countries with shorelines</a> there.
It will take years to remove them all.

 


title: Protests in China over frozen bank accounts
uri: Protests-in-China-over-frozen-bank-accounts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Protests_in_China_over_frozen_bank_accounts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Protests_in_China_over_frozen_bank_accounts)

content:
 
<p>

In April, China froze the bank accounts of thousands of people because
the bank was in danger of bankruptcy.  Those people have effectively
lost their money, and may be broke, so they <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/11/china-violent-clashes-at-protest-over-frozen-rural-bank-accounts">protested in the street</a>,
and <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> came and beat them up.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Test_of_UK's_unwritten_constitution)
title: Test of UK's unwritten constitution
uri: Test-of-UK-s-unwritten-constitution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Test_of_UK's_unwritten_constitution)
content:
 
<p>

*The UK’s unwritten constitution is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/10/the-uks-unwritten-constitution-is-put-to-the-test-by-johnsons-unprincipled-acts">put to the test</a> by Johnson’s
unprincipled acts.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Anti-covid_masks_in_Australia)
title: Anti-covid masks in Australia
uri: Anti-covid-masks-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Anti-covid_masks_in_Australia)
content:
 
<p>

The Australian government must act to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/12/vaccines-and-antivirals-not-enough-to-combat-australian-omicron-surge-experts-warn">increase use of anti-Covid masks</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Macron's_links_to_Uber_lobbying)
title: Macron's links to Uber lobbying
uri: Macron-s-links-to-Uber-lobbying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Macron's_links_to_Uber_lobbying)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/11/uber-files-france-calls-for-inquiry-into-emmanuel-macron-links-to-lobbying">Calls for inquiry</a> into [French president] Macron's links to Uber lobbying.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Uber-corruptible_European_Commission)
title: Uber-corruptible European Commission
uri: Uber-corruptible-European-Commission
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_July_2022_(Uber-corruptible_European_Commission)
content:
 
<p>

The European Commission is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/11/uber-privileged-access-eu-politicians-lobby-system-change">Uber-corruptible</a>, and it's not only
Uber that has corrupted it.

 


title: Urgent: US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act
uri: Urgent-US-citizens-call-on-Congress-to-pass-the-Judicial-Ethics-and
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(Urgent:_call_on_congress_to_pass_judicial_ethics_anti_corruption_act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(Urgent:_call_on_congress_to_pass_judicial_ethics_anti_corruption_act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Judicial Ethics and
Anti-Corruption Act, 
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/scotus-ethics/?t=1001&akid=29291%2E96703%2EYNVpGt">which will enact ethical standards for the
Supreme Court.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(neelie_kroes_uber_accused_lobbying)
title: Neelie Kroes, former EU official, accused of lobbying for Uber
uri: Neelie-Kroes-former-EU-official-accused-of-lobbying-for-Uber
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(neelie_kroes_uber_accused_lobbying)
content:
 
<p>
Neelie Kroes, formerly head EU official in charge of internet policy,
is accused of lobbying for Uber 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/12/eu-urged-investigate-ex-politician-uber-links-rein-in-tech-lobbyists">shortly after leaving that job.</a>
<p>
Several UK ministers met secretly 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/11/osborne-hancock-tory-ministers-did-not-declare-secret-uber-meetings-leak-reveals">with Uber lobbyists.</a>
<p>
Having those meetings may not violate any specific rules, but
morally speaking it suggests they are working for the wrong side.

 


title: UK's strict lock downs may have harmed the psychological development of children and teenagers.
uri: UK-s-strict-lock-downs-may-have-harmed-the-psychological-development-o
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(uk_lockdown_psychological_harm_evidence_young)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(uk_lockdown_psychological_harm_evidence_young)

content:
 
<p>
The UK's strict lock downs may have harmed the psychological
development of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/10/evidence-grows-lockdown-harm-to-young-but-we-act-as-if-nothing-happened">children and teenagers.</a>

 


uri: Germany-will-reactivate-old-closed-coal-power-plants-to-cope-with-the
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(germany_reactivate_coal_power_curb_gas_flow)

title:
 Germany will reactivate old, closed coal power plants to cope with the
lack of Russian natural gas 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(germany_reactivate_coal_power_curb_gas_flow)

content:
 
<p>
Germany will reactivate old, closed coal power 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/germany-reactivate-coal-power-plants-russia-curbs-gas-flow">plants to cope with the
lack of Russian natural gas.</a>
<p>
Since gas causes as much global heating as coal does, this
substitution may not do any net harm.  But what will happen to the gas
that Russia is not selling to Germany?
<p>
Will Russia leave some in the ground?  (I've read it is not feasible
to entirely shut off extracting gas.)  Will Russia sell it elsewhere?
Will Russia burn it at the well-head, for the lack of any place to put
it?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(cruises_robot_car_outages)
title: Driverless taxis operated by Cruise are not autonomous
uri: Driverless-taxis-operated-by-Cruise-are-not-autonomous
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(cruises_robot_car_outages)
content:
 
<p>
Driverless taxis operated by Cruise are not autonomous &mdash; they work on
remote control.  
<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/cruises-robot-car-outages/">If they lose communication with the base, they stop.</a>
<p>
I wouldn't trust any driverless taxi if it communicates with any
server whatsoever &mdash; or if I can't use it anonymously.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(five_insights_from_jan_6_evidence)
uri: The-latest-Jan-6-hearing-showed-evidence-that-the-wrecker-strove-persi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(five_insights_from_jan_6_evidence)
title:
 The latest Jan 6 hearing showed evidence that the wrecker strove
persistently to steal the 2020 election 

content:
 
<p>
The latest Jan 6 hearing showed evidence that the wrecker strove
persistently to steal the 2020 election, first by lies and lawfare,
then by 
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/five-insights-from-todays-hearing">planned provocation of violence at the Capitol.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(rashida_tlaib_espionage_act)
title: Rashida Tlaib Is Trying to Fix the Espionage Act, but Whistleblowers Are Probably Out of Luck
uri: Rashida-Tlaib-Is-Trying-to-Fix-the-Espionage-Act-but-Whistleblowers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(rashida_tlaib_espionage_act)
content:
 
<p>
*Rashida Tlaib Is Trying to Fix the Espionage Act,
 but Whistleblowers 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/07/12/whistleblower-espionage-act-reform/">Are Probably Out of Luck.</a>*

 


title: Australia's privacy regulator will investigate two store chains for using facial recognition
uri: Australia-s-privacy-regulator-will-investigate-two-store-chains-for-us
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(privacy_watchdog_kmart_facial_recognition_technology)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(privacy_watchdog_kmart_facial_recognition_technology)

content:
 
<p>
Australia's privacy regulator will investigate two store chains
for using facial 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/12/privacy-watchdog-to-investigate-bunnings-and-kmart-over-use-of-facial-recognition-technology">recognition on customers in general.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(uber_paid_academic_economists)
title: Uber paid academic economists as much as $100,000 to publish beneficial research
uri: Uber-paid-academic-economists-as-much-as-100-000-to-publish-beneficia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(uber_paid_academic_economists)
content:
 
<p>
Uber paid academic economists as much as $100,000 to publish research
that would present the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/12/uber-paid-academics-six-figure-sums-for-research-to-feed-to-the-media">company as beneficial for society.</a>
<p>
The article explains facts that these economists disregarded.
However, just as crucial was to choose economists whose general
assumptions predisposed them to evaluate based on parameters where
Uber would excel, and ignore consequences that we might consider bad,
such as wages that you can't live on.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(tax_cut_pledges_tory_leadership)
title: Tax cut pledges by Tory leadership hopefuls risk stoking inflation and inequality
uri: Tax-cut-pledges-by-Tory-leadership-hopefuls-risk-stoking-inflation-and
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(tax_cut_pledges_tory_leadership)
content:
 
<p>
*Tax cut pledges by Tory leadership hopefuls "risk 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/12/tax-cut-pledges-by-tory-leadership-hopefuls-risk-stoking-inflation-and-inequality">stoking inflation
and inequality."</a>*
<p>
You can generally expect Tories to address any problem by cutting
taxes for the wealthy.  It's their hammer.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(extinct_parrots_make_comeback_brazil)
title: Extinct parrots make flying comeback in Brazil
uri: Extinct-parrots-make-flying-comeback-in-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(extinct_parrots_make_comeback_brazil)
content:
 
<p>
The Spix's macaw has been reestablished in the wild after a massive, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/10/extinct-parrots-make-a-flying-comeback-in-brazil">careful program of breeding the ones living in captivity.</a>
<p>
The movie Rio may have helped inspire the effort.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(jayland_walker_police)
title: Some black men run away from traffic stops because they are terrified that thugs will kill them.
uri: Some-black-men-run-away-from-traffic-stops-because-they-are-terrified
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(jayland_walker_police)
content:
 
<p>
Some black men run away from traffic stops because they are terrified
that 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/10/us/why-did-jayland-walker-run-reaj/index.html">thugs will kill them.</a>
<p>
Rationally, the chance that any given black man will be killed in any
given traffic stop is minuscule.  But I can't blame them for feeling
terrified, given the thugs' patterns of bias and harassment.  There is
no reliable way for a black driver to get through a 
<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/falcon-heights-fatal-police-shooting-philando-castile/">traffic stop
safely &mdash; you can get shot for obeying the thugs' orders.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(po_river_italy_drought_climate)
title: regional drought in northern Italy has left the Po river nearly empty.
uri: regional-drought-in-northern-Italy-has-left-the-Po-river-nearly-empty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(po_river_italy_drought_climate)
content:
 
<p>
A regional drought in northern Italy has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/10/po-river-italy-drought-climate">left the Po river nearly empty.</a>
<p>
Agriculture has been devastated, and cities have water restrictions.
I expect large wildfires to follow.

 


title: Iran is providing armed drones to Putin.
uri: Iran-is-providing-armed-drones-to-Putin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(iran_drones_russia_uav_combat_ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(iran_drones_russia_uav_combat_ukraine)

content:
 
<p>
Iran is providing 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/12/iran-drones-russia-uav-combat-ukraine">armed drones to Putin.</a>
<p>
This support is comparable to (though much smaller in scale than)
NATO's support for Ukraine.  It is clear, and very regrettable, that
the US blew its opportunity to reduce hostilities with Iran.
<p>
I think the US's motive was to appease long-time allies such as Salafi
Arabia.  This entails sucking up to Crown Prince Bone Saw -- someone
as murderous as the rulers of Iran, and even more oppressive to women
and dissidents.  And he doesn't even give the US strategic support
when it asks.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(uber_deceptive_tactics)
title: Uber executives and deceptive tactics
uri: Uber-executives-and-deceptive-tactics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(uber_deceptive_tactics)
content:
 
<p>
Uber's highest executives approved of using this "greyball" deception
feature to thwart government investigations of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/12/uber-used-greyball-fake-app-to-evade-police-across-europe-leak-reveals">allegations that Uber
was violating regulations.</a>
<p>
If that wasn't illegal, the laws are too weak.


 


title: Sri Lanka's president's failed flee attempt
uri: Sri-Lanka-s-president-s-failed-flee-attempt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(sri_lanka_president_failed_flee_attempt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_July_2022_(sri_lanka_president_failed_flee_attempt)

content:
 
<p>
Sri Lanka's president tried to flee to Dubai on a commercial flight,
before he ceases to be president, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/12/sri-lanka-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-fails-attempt-flee-airport">but airport staff stopped him.</a>

 


title: Biden's Secretary of Veterans Affairs wants to outsource
uri: Biden-s-Secretary-of-Veterans-Affairs-wants-to-outsource
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Biden's_Secretary_of_Veterans_Affairs_wants_to_outsource)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Biden's_Secretary_of_Veterans_Affairs_wants_to_outsource)

content:
 
<p>
  Biden's Secretary of Veterans Affairs wants to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/12/there-should-be-no-path-forward-privatizing-veterans-affairs">close facilities and
  outsource</a> services.
<p>
  Outsourcing means the workers are paid less and the work has no
  accountability to the public.

 


title: Groups demand Egypt uphold protest rights
uri: Groups-demand-Egypt-uphold-protest-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Groups_demand_Egypt_uphold_protest_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Groups_demand_Egypt_uphold_protest_rights)

content:
 
<p>
  *Groups Demand Egypt <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/12/groups-demand-egypt-uphold-right-protest-global-climate-summit">Uphold Right to Protest</a> at Global Climate Summit.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Corrupter_threatens_witnesses)
title: Corrupter threatens witnesses
uri: Corrupter-threatens-witnesses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Corrupter_threatens_witnesses)
content:
 
<p>
  The corrupter tried to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/12/jan-6-hearing-trump-tried-to-contact-witness">threaten witnesses who were going to testify</a>
  for the Jan 6 attack investigation.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Covid_cases_increasing)
title: Covid cases increasing
uri: Covid-cases-increasing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Covid_cases_increasing)
content:
 
<p>
  A rough estimate suggests that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/11/health/ba-5-hidden-covid-case-increase/index.html">around 100,000 Americans develop long
  Covid disabilities each day</a>.
<p>
  Almost all of them decided to dispense with precautions, such as
  masks, because "nobody else does that any more, so they must be
  unnecessary."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(mRNA_Vaccine_collaboration)
title: mRNA Vaccine collaboration
uri: mRNA-Vaccine-collaboration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(mRNA_Vaccine_collaboration)
content:
 
<p>
  *US, African Scientists to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/08/big-deal-us-african-scientists-collaborate-mrna-vaccine-development">Collaborate on mRNA Vaccine Development</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(US_and_Salafi_Arabia)
title: US and Salafi Arabia
uri: US-and-Salafi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(US_and_Salafi_Arabia)
content:
 
<p>
  The US <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/11/biden-visits-saudi-arabia-gao-report-spotlights-deadly-us-role-yemen-disaster">bends over backwards to aid</a> Salafi Arabia's intervention in Yemen
  while falsely denying what it does.

 


title: Work-arounds for destructive Supreme Court
uri: Work-arounds-for-destructive-Supreme-Court
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Work-arounds_for_destructive_Supreme_Court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Work-arounds_for_destructive_Supreme_Court)

content:
 
<p>
  Suggested <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/10/2109545/-End-Around-the-Rightwing-Supreme-Court-Agenda?_=2022-07-10T16:16:25.000-07:00">work-arounds for various destructive acts</a> by the Supreme Court.  Some of them are substantial work.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Film-makers_arrested)
title: Film-makers arrested
uri: Film-makers-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Film-makers_arrested)
content:
 
<p>
  Iran has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jul/11/golden-bear-winner-mohammad-rasoulof-arrested-in-iran-over-social-media-protest">jailed three film-makers</a>, two of whom have won international
  awards, for protesting.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Federal_law_override_abortion_bans)
title: Federal law override abortion bans
uri: Federal-law-override-abortion-bans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Federal_law_override_abortion_bans)
content:
 
<p>
  Secretary Becerra says that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/11/health/federal-abortion-law-preempts-state-law/index.html">federal law overrides state abortion bans</a>
  when an abortion is needed for a medical emergency.
<p>
  This will remove the most dangerous aspect of those bans &mdash; if the
  fanatics on the Supreme Court do not invent an excuse to strike it
  down.  It is hard to be confident that there is a limit they respect.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(2%2F3_Democrats_don't_want_Biden)
title: 2/3 Democrats don't want Biden
uri: 2-3-Democrats-don-t-want-Biden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(2%2F3_Democrats_don't_want_Biden)
content:
 
<p>
  Almost 2/3 of Democrats <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/11/64-democratic-voters-dont-want-biden-be-partys-2024-nominee-poll">don't want Biden to run again</a> in 2024.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Nearly_$2tn_damage_inflicted_by_US)
title: Nearly $2tn damage inflicted by US
uri: Nearly-2tn-damage-inflicted-by-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Nearly_$2tn_damage_inflicted_by_US)
content:
 
<p>
  *Nearly $2tn of damage <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/12/us-carbon-emissions-greenhouse-gases-climate-crisis">inflicted on other countries by [past] US</a>
  [greenhouse gas] emissions.*
<p>
  I think that how we cut down emissions is more important than who
  emitted how much already.  The bad guys are those who fight against
  rapid cutting.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Amazon_warehouse_slogan)
title: Amazon warehouse slogan
uri: Amazon-warehouse-slogan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Amazon_warehouse_slogan)
content:
 
<p>
  Amazon warehouse workers have a new slogan: "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/12/amazon-workers-union-push-north-carolina-kentucky">Don't quit, organize</a>!"

 


title: Private lenders must ease Africa's crippling debt
uri: Private-lenders-must-ease-Africa-s-crippling-debt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Private_lenders_must_ease_Africa's_crippling_debt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Private_lenders_must_ease_Africa's_crippling_debt)

content:
 
<p>
  *West must <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jul/12/west-must-force-private-lenders-to-ease-africas-crippling-debt-say-campaigners">force private lenders to ease Africa's crippling debt</a>, say
  campaigners.*
<p>
  If they don't dare to overcome the investors in vaccine companies
  to free up making of vaccines, I see little hope they will do this.

 


title: Uber drivers making less than minimum wave
uri: Uber-drivers-making-less-than-minimum-wave
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Uber_drivers_making_less_than_minimum_wave)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Uber_drivers_making_less_than_minimum_wave)

content:
 
<p>
Drivers for Uber make less than minimum wage &mdash; in London, at least &mdash;
but there is no competition for drivers to switch to.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Elon_Musk_wants_big_families)
title: Elon Musk wants big families
uri: Elon-Musk-wants-big-families
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Elon_Musk_wants_big_families)
content:
 
<p>
  *Elon Musk wants everyone to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/12/elon-musk-wants-everyone-to-have-big-families-like-him-but-who-is-going-to-pay-for-them">have big families</a> like him &mdash; but who's
  going to pay for them?*
<p>
  It is rational to choose not to have children because raising them is
  so expensive.  But if that is the main thing that convinces people
  to avoid having children, then survival of civilization will depend
  on making the children of poor people grow up in poverty.
<p>
  We need people to be even more rational, and choose not to have children
  <a href="/articles/children.html">because the world can't support them</a>.
  Plus, it's dangerous and painful, etc.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_birth_control)
title: Urgent: Protect birth control
uri: Urgent-Protect-birth-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_birth_control)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress to: protect Birth Control from the
  supreme Court &mdash;
  <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/protect-birth-control-from-the-supreme-court">pass
  a law protecting the right to use birth control</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(climate_insantiy_biden_drill_alaska)
title: Climate insanity: Biden still wants to approve oil drilling in northern Alaska.
uri: Climate-insanity-Biden-still-wants-to-approve-oil-drilling-in-norther
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(climate_insantiy_biden_drill_alaska)
content:
 
<p>
Climate insanity: Biden still wants to approve 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/12/climate-insanity-biden-administration-wants-drill-alaskas-north-slope"> oil drilling in northern Alaska.</a>
<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_((Satire)_amazon_rousing_speech)
title: (satire) *Amazon Supervisor Delivers Rousing Speech To Employees*
uri: (satire)-Amazon-Supervisor-Delivers-Rousing-Speech-To-Employees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_((Satire)_amazon_rousing_speech)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Amazon Supervisor Delivers Rousing Speech To Employees About
Honorably Laying Down Lives 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/amazon-supervisor-delivers-rousing-speech-to-employees-1849169651">For Prime Day.*</a>
<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_((Satire)_elon_musk_twitter_deal)
title: (satire) *Elon Musk Tries to Back Out of Twitter Deal*
uri: (satire)-Elon-Musk-Tries-to-Back-Out-of-Twitter-Deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_((Satire)_elon_musk_twitter_deal)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Elon Musk Tries to Back Out of 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-tries-to-back-out-of-twitter-deal-by-deleting-1849169663">Twitter Deal by Deleting App
from Phone.</a>*
<p>

 


title: *A New York Starbucks abruptly closed*
uri: A-New-York-Starbucks-abruptly-closed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(new_york_starbucks_abruptly_closes_union)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(new_york_starbucks_abruptly_closes_union)

content:
 
<p>
*A New York Starbucks abruptly closed &mdash; 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/04/new-york-starbucks-closed-union-drive">was it retaliation for its
union drive?*</a>

 


title: Right-wingers call for redesigning schools to prevent mass shootings
uri: Right-wingers-call-for-redesigning-schools-to-prevent-mass-shootings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(right_wing_school_redesign_prevent_mass_shootings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(right_wing_school_redesign_prevent_mass_shootings)

content:
 
<p>
Right-wingers call for redesigning schools as fortresses with no
windows, but there is no reason to believe 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/jul/04/school-redesign-to-prevent-mass-shootings-skirts-real-issues">this will reduce the number
of shootings in schools.</a>
<p>
It will certainly do nothing to reduce the number of shootings elsewhere.
<p>
Meanwhile, stationing thugs in schools puts the students in danger of
imprisonment.

 


uri: Amazon-regularly-gives-Ring-door-camera-videos-to-the-government-witho
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(amazon_ring_videos_to_gov_without_permission)

title:
 Amazon regularly gives Ring door camera videos to the government without getting permission from owner 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(amazon_ring_videos_to_gov_without_permission)

content:
 
<p>
Amazon regularly gives Ring door camera videos to the government without
getting 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/13/amazon-ring-doorbell-videos-police-11-times-without-permission">permission from the camera's nominal owner.</a>
<p>
This is a secondary wrong which makes those cameras a little more
unjust.  But they would be plenty unjust without this.  When millions
of people make videos of everyone that walks past their door, and hand
the recordings over to a particular company to store, that's asking
for abuse of the recordings. 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">That kind of system should be
prohibited.</a>
<p>
Basically, you should be required to set up the camera so that it only
sees people when they approach your door, not when they pass by on the
sidewalk.
<p>

 


title: Sri Lankans vow to continue protests until demands are met
uri: Sri-Lankans-vow-to-continue-protests-until-demands-are-met
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(sri_lanka_protests_until_demands_are_met)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(sri_lanka_protests_until_demands_are_met)

content:
 
<p>
The president of Sri Lanka did not resign when he promised he would.
Instead he got an 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/13/this-is-a-huge-moment-sri-lankans-vow-to-continue-protests-until-demands-are-met">air force plane to take him to Singapore.</a>
<p>
No doubt he has access there to secret funds, which the people say
come from corruption.  I doubt that Sri Lanka can convince Singapore
to send him or his money back to Sri Lanka.   It will be a great shame if
he lives for the rest of his life in wealth while leaving his country
in poverty.

 


uri: Urgent-US-citizens-call-on-Biden-to-declare-that-the-attack-on-abort
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Urgent:_call_on_biden_declare_abortion_rights_health_emergency)

title:
 Urgent: US citizens: call on Biden to declare that the attack on abortion
rights is a public health emergency. 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Urgent:_call_on_biden_declare_abortion_rights_health_emergency)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to declare that the attack on 
<a href="https://act.ayannapressley.com/signup/apem-20220711-public-health-emergency/">abortion
rights is a public health emergency.</a>
<p>
For  
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/11/good-now-declare-it-says-pressley-biden-mulls-health-emergency-abortion-rights">more information.</a>

 


uri: Urgent-US-citizens-call-on-Senator-Schumer-to-schedule-a-vote-to-let
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Urgent:_schumer_schedule_a_vote_on_era)

title:
 Urgent: US citizens: call on Senator Schumer to schedule a vote to let the Equal Rights Amendment take effect. 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Urgent:_schumer_schedule_a_vote_on_era)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Senator Schumer to schedule a vote to let the 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-leader-schumer-schedule-a-vote-on-the-equal-rights-amendment/">Equal Rights Amendment take effect.</a>

 


uri: Urgent-US-citizens-call-on-Biden-not-to-put-bureaucratic-barriers-on
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Urgent:_petition_biden_student_debt_relief)

title:
 Urgent: US citizens: call on Biden not to put bureaucratic barriers on
canceling student loan debt 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Urgent:_petition_biden_student_debt_relief)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden not to put 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-president-biden-no-barriers-to-student-debt-relief/">bureaucratic barriers on
canceling student loan debt</a>

 


uri: Urgent-US-citizens-call-on-the-Republican-National-Committee-to-deno
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Urgent:_petition_republican_national_committee_denounce_ads_violence)

title:
 Urgent: US citizens: call on the Republican National Committee to denounce
campaign ads promoting extreme violence. 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Urgent:_petition_republican_national_committee_denounce_ads_violence)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the Republican National Committee to denounce
campaign ads 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-the-republican-national-committee-must-denounce-ads-promoting-extreme-violence/">promoting extreme violence.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Urgent:_biden_no_offshore_drilling)
title: Urgent: US citizens: call on Biden not to allow offshore fossil fuel drilling.
uri: Urgent-US-citizens-call-on-Biden-not-to-allow-offshore-fossil-fuel-d
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(Urgent:_biden_no_offshore_drilling)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden not to allow 
<a href="https://act.350.org/sign/biden-no-offshore-drilling-072022/">offshore fossil fuel
drilling.</a>

 


title: Case for Capitol attack being premeditated
uri: Case-for-Capitol-attack-being-premeditated
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Case_for_Capitol_attack_being_premeditated)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Case_for_Capitol_attack_being_premeditated)

content:
 
<p>

*Trouble for [the wrecker] as committee <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/13/trump-pressure-capitol-attack-january-6">makes case</a> Capitol attack was
 premeditated.*
<p>
This makes criminal prosecution easier, if officials have the guts to try.

 


title: Green party standing against Australia fossil fuel projects
uri: Green-party-standing-against-Australia-fossil-fuel-projects
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Green_party_standing_against_Australia_fossil_fuel_projects)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Green_party_standing_against_Australia_fossil_fuel_projects)

content:
 
<p>

Australia's Labor Party plans new fossil fuel projects.  The Green
Party is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/14/labor-backing-fossil-fuel-projects-could-scupper-greens-support-for-43-target">standing firm against them</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Current_causes_of_high_inflation)
title: Current causes of high inflation
uri: Current-causes-of-high-inflation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Current_causes_of_high_inflation)
content:
 
<p>

The <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/todays-inflation-report">current causes</a> of high inflation are shortages and gouging &mdash; not
wage increases.
<p>
Here's the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/08/new-jobs-report-shows-fed-should-halt-harmful-rate-hikes">pertinent data</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Mining_sea_floor_for_valuable_metals)
title: Mining sea floor for valuable metals
uri: Mining-sea-floor-for-valuable-metals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Mining_sea_floor_for_valuable_metals)
content:
 
<p>

Australia and New Zealand are supporting a company that wants to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/14/csiro-joins-deep-sea-mining-project-in-pacific-as-islands-call-for-industry-halt">mine the sea floor</a> for valuable metals.
<p>
In principle, this is a very good thing to do, provided it is done in
a way that avoids destroying sea-bottom life, which tends to be
slow to reproduce.
<p>
They are working on developing robotic picking, to avoid
the horribly destructive method of bottom trawling.  However,
environmentalists are worried that the machine's noises could
destroy undersea ecosystems.  Many undersea animals are
sensitive to noises &mdash; the noise from ships is interfering with
whales' hearing.

 


title: Queensland thugs disbelief of accusations of domestic violence
uri: Queensland-thugs-disbelief-of-accusations-of-domestic-violence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Queensland_thugs_disbelief_of_accusations_of_domestic_violence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Queensland_thugs_disbelief_of_accusations_of_domestic_violence)

content:
 
<p>

An <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/14/queensland-police-officer-minimised-domestic-violence-despite-punch-sized-bruises-inquiry-hears">investigation found</a> that Queensland thugs sometimes arbitrarily
disbelieve accusations of domestic violence, or refuse to take action.

 


title: Pharmacies refusing to fill prescription for pregnant patients
uri: Pharmacies-refusing-to-fill-prescription-for-pregnant-patients
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Pharmacies_refusing_to_fill_prescription_for_pregnant_patients)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Pharmacies_refusing_to_fill_prescription_for_pregnant_patients)

content:
 
<p>

The Biden administration told US pharmacies that refusing to fill a
prescription because the patient is pregnant <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/13/health/biden-abortion-pharmacy-guidance/index.html">violates federal
anti discrimination law</a>.
<p>
This rule interpretation can <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-11/post-roe-many-autoimmune-patients-lose-access-to-gold-standard-drug">protect their access to medicine</a> for
treating various diseases including lupus,
as well as protecting access to some methods of abortion.
<p>
I expect that the fanatical justices will look for an way to overturn
it.
<p>
Meanwhile, in Texas, doctors already hesitate just as <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_July_2022_(poland_abortion_law_izabela_sajbor)">Izabela Sajbor's</a>
doctors in Poland hesitated, with fatal results in her case.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Staffers_urge_climate_action)
title: Staffers urge climate action
uri: Staffers-urge-climate-action
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Staffers_urge_climate_action)
content:
 
<p>

*More than 200 congressional staffers urge Pelosi and Schumer to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/12/politics/congress-staffers-climate-letter-pelosi-schumer/index.html">act on
climate</a> or risk dooming younger generations.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Future_use_of_non-fossil_gases)
title: Future use of non-fossil gases
uri: Future-use-of-non-fossil-gases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Future_use_of_non-fossil_gases)
content:
 
<p>

Future technology may enable us to burn non-fossil gases, such as
green hydrogen and methane from bio-wastes.  But we <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/14/what-is-renewable-gas-and-is-it-really-just-around-the-corner">can't use them
in quantity in this decade</a>, and probably not in the next.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Deal_to_resume_grain_exports)
title: Deal to resume grain exports
uri: Deal-to-resume-grain-exports
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Deal_to_resume_grain_exports)
content:
 
<p>

*Turkey announces deal with Ukraine, Russia and UN aimed at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/14/turkey-announces-deal-with-ukraine-russia-and-un-aimed-at-resuming-grain-exports">resuming
grain exports</a>.*

 


title: If the corrupter did shoot someone on Fifth Avenue
uri: If-the-corrupter-did-shoot-someone-on-Fifth-Avenue
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(If_the_corrupter_did_shoot_someone_on_Fifth_Avenue)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(If_the_corrupter_did_shoot_someone_on_Fifth_Avenue)

content:
 
<p>

*You have to wonder: if [the corrupter] did shoot someone on Fifth
Avenue, would all those prosecutors <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/13/criminal-investigation-donald-trump">still be struggling</a> with the
question of whether they could or should indict him?*
<p>
I see the sense in thinking five times before turning a question of
politics into a matter of criminal justice.  That can undermine the
political system.  Sad to say the Republicans have already gone much
farther than this, and the line these prosecutors are trying to hold
has already fallen.  Now the question is whether to fight back or let
them win.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Break_it_till_you_make_it)
title: Break it till you make it
uri: Break-it-till-you-make-it
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Break_it_till_you_make_it)
content:
 
<p>

Uber's tactics: "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/13/the-problem-with-ubers-break-it-till-you-make-it-tactics">break it till you make it</a>".

 


title: Drought emptying lakes Powell and Meade
uri: Drought-emptying-lakes-Powell-and-Meade
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Drought_emptying_lakes_Powell_and_Meade)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Drought_emptying_lakes_Powell_and_Meade)

content:
 
<p>

Drought is emptying Lake Powell and Lake Meade, which feed two
giant hydroelectric dams.  In a year or two, they may <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/13/lake-powell-drought-electricity">cease
to generate power</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Bookchin's_political_philosophy)
title: Bookchin's political philosophy
uri: Bookchin-s-political-philosophy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Bookchin's_political_philosophy)
content:
 
<p>

George Monbiot calls attention to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/13/take-back-control-governments">Bookchin's political philosophy</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Democracy_vs_Autocracy)
title: Democracy vs Autocracy
uri: Democracy-vs-Autocracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Democracy_vs_Autocracy)
content:
 
<p>

*Let's Be Clear: The Battle Before Us Is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/08/lets-be-clear-battle-us-democracy-vs-autocracy">Democracy vs. Autocracy</a>.*

 


title: NATO can defend itself against Russian attack
uri: NATO-can-defend-itself-against-Russian-attack
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(NATO_can_defend_itself_against_Russian_attack)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(NATO_can_defend_itself_against_Russian_attack)

content:
 
<p>

An analysis shows that NATO is quite <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/14/just-how-much-bigger-us-nato-military-force-russias">capable of defending itself</a> from
any Russian conventional attack.
Bombardment of cities with missiles is the one real threat that
Russia has, and stopping the bombardment might require a
counterinvasion &mdash; but Russia's trying this while fighting in Ukraine
would be suicidal.
<p>
I have doubts about whether the various NATO countries could
coordinate well, but their strength may be enough that they could win
anyway.
<p>
I think of this as giving the NATO countries space to relax somewhat.
They need to remain strong, but while they do, they are not in great
danger.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Pence_and_Secret_Service)
title: Pence and Secret Service
uri: Pence-and-Secret-Service
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Pence_and_Secret_Service)
content:
 
<p>
On Jan 6, when Pence was at the Capitol, Secret Service agents tried
to put him into a limo and take him to a "secure location".  That
would have <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/07/14/jan-6-texts-deleted-secret-service/">achieved the wrecker's goal</a> of sabotaging the formal
election count.
<p>
Pence refused to enter the limo, and made it clear it was so he
could continue with an honest count.

 


title: Democrats urged to finalize reconciliation package
uri: Democrats-urged-to-finalize-reconciliation-package
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Democrats_urged_to_finalize_reconciliation_package)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Democrats_urged_to_finalize_reconciliation_package)

content:
 
<p>
*More than 200 congressional staffers have urged the Democratic leaders
of the House and Senate to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/13/200-hill-staffers-urge-pelosi-and-schumer-end-dangerous-inaction-climate">finalize a reconciliation package</a> that
includes robust measures to tackle the fossil fuel-driven climate
emergency before the August recess.*
<p>
Meanwhile, a plutocratist Democrat in the House is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/13/gleefully-committing-arson-gottheimer-gang-may-derail-manchin-deal">trying to eliminate
the tax increase for the rich</a>.

 


title: Congress working behind closed doors on $50 billion in corporate welfare
uri: Congress-working-behind-closed-doors-on-50-billion-in-corporate-welfa
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Congress_working_behind_closed_doors_on_$50_billion_in_corporate_welfare)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Congress_working_behind_closed_doors_on_$50_billion_in_corporate_welfare)

content:
 
<p>
*Sanders Warns Congress Is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/14/sanders-warns-congress-working-behind-closed-doors-50-billion-corporate-welfare">Working 'Behind Closed Doors' on $50
Billion in Corporate Welfare</a>.*
<p>
Including 10 billion for Bezos.
<p>
*We're talking about giving $50 billion in corporate welfare with no
strings attached &mdash; a blank check &mdash; to the highly profitable
microchip industry.*
<p>
It makes sense to encourage companies to manufacture chips in the US,
but not with a subsidy.  We must stop "rewarding" companies for <em>not</em>
doing some harmful practice.  Instead we must punish the ones that do
it.
<p>
The traditional way to do this is with a tariff.  The World Trade
Organization restricts that &mdash; its purpose, from the start, was
to reduce the power that states have over businesses and give
the businesses power over states, and it succeeded.  That's
why I call it a <a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business-supremacy treaty</a>.
But there are ways to impose a tariff.
<p>
The problem is that when a country applies a tariff to a product that
it does not produce, it only <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#15_June_2018_(Solar_power_projects_canceled)">discourages use of the product</a>.
What we
need is a tariff that applies to any given model of imported chips
<em>once some factory in the US produces comparable chips</em>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Bucha_torture_chambers)
title: Bucha torture chambers
uri: Bucha-torture-chambers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Bucha_torture_chambers)
content:
 
<p>
*Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe documents
the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-07-14-22/h_c0aae7af379352e9ed57608044509206">discovery
of torture chambers</a> &hellip; in Bucha.*
<p>
The report also asserts that the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> used Ukrainian civilians
as human shields.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Bolsonaro_encouraging_violence)
title: Bolsonaro encouraging violence
uri: Bolsonaro-encouraging-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Bolsonaro_encouraging_violence)
content:
 
<p>
Bolsonaro has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/15/killing-of-lulas-party-treasurer-by-bolsonaro-supporter-raises-fears-of-violent-runup-to-brazils-election">encouraging violence</a> against his opponents and
threatening rebellion if he loses the election.  Now one of his
supporters has assassinated the treasurer of the Workers Party, which
Lula leads.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Burying_without_identifying)
title: Burying without identifying
uri: Burying-without-identifying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Burying_without_identifying)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> seem to be burying the dead civilians of Mariupol in
mass
graves, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/15/ukraine-1400-graves-dug-at-mariupol-cemetery-since-mid-may-images-suggest">without
identifying them</a> (which would be a challenge).  Estimates of the
number of dead range form 22,000 to 90,000, and perhaps vary even
further.

 


title: Greece threw handcuffed migrants into sea
uri: Greece-threw-handcuffed-migrants-into-sea
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Greece_threw_handcuffed_migrants_into_sea)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Greece_threw_handcuffed_migrants_into_sea)

content:
 
<p>
DiEM25 reports that Greece is accused
of <a href="https://mailchi.mp/tr.diem25.org/greece-and-eu-have-left-over-27000-people-to-die-in-aegean-sea?e=a73fd44508">throwing
migrants into the Aegean sea, handcuffed</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(NHS_doctor_strike)
title: NHS doctor strike
uri: NHS-doctor-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(NHS_doctor_strike)
content:
 
<p>
NHS doctors will strike, using cuts in their pay (after inflation)
to illustrate how the NHS is underfunded in every way.

 


title: The bullshitter was going to claim he won with unfinished count
uri: The-bullshitter-was-going-to-claim-he-won-with-unfinished-count
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(The_bullshitter_was_going_to_claim_he_won_with_unfinished_count)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(The_bullshitter_was_going_to_claim_he_won_with_unfinished_count)

content:
 
<p>
A video shows Bannon stating, before the 2020 election, that the
bullshitter was <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/14/leaked-bannon-clip-confirms-trumps-false-victory-claim-election-night-was-planned">going to claim to have won</a>, at a time when
he had a temporary lead in the unfinished count.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_warehouse_workers)
title: Urgent: Protect warehouse workers
uri: Urgent-Protect-warehouse-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_warehouse_workers)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-protect-warehouse-workers-this-prime-day?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-its-a-prime-day-to-take-on-amazon">protect warehouse workers</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Open abortion clinics on federal land
uri: Urgent-Open-abortion-clinics-on-federal-land
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Urgent:_Open_abortion_clinics_on_federal_land)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Urgent:_Open_abortion_clinics_on_federal_land)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-biden-administration-open-abortion-clinics-on-federal-land?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-just-strategy&source=group-just-strategy">open abortion clinics on federal land</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Expel members of Congress who tried to overturn 2020 election
uri: Urgent-Expel-members-of-Congress-who-tried-to-overturn-2020-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Urgent:_Expel_members_of_Congress_who_tried_to_overturn_2020_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Urgent:_Expel_members_of_Congress_who_tried_to_overturn_2020_election)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/expel-members-of-congress-who-tried-to-overturn-the-2020-election?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-breaking-jan-6th-poll-3">expel the members who tried to overturn the 2020 election</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Urgent:_End_fossil_fuel_subsidies)
title: Urgent: End fossil fuel subsidies
uri: Urgent-End-fossil-fuel-subsidies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Urgent:_End_fossil_fuel_subsidies)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress
to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=50721">end
fossil fuel subsidies</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Sri_Lankan_president_unseated)
title: Sri Lankan president unseated
uri: Sri-Lankan-president-unseated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Sri_Lankan_president_unseated)
content:
 
<p>
*How Sri Lankan protesters <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/16/i-screamed-and-cried-how-sri-lankan-protesters-unseated-their-president">unseated their president</a>.*
<p>
Kicking out the Rajapaksas was necessary, but not sufficient.
I fear that the only help that the US and other western powers
offer will involve selling the country into something like slavery.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(No_jobs,_no_homes)
title: No jobs, no homes
uri: No-jobs-no-homes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(No_jobs,_no_homes)
content:
 
<p>
Ukraine is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/16/no-jobs-no-homes-ukrainians-forced-back-to-frontline-towns">failing to arrange places to stay</a>, and essential support,
for people who flee from homes near the front.
<p>
I've been wondering why so many people remain in Ukrainian towns where
they could be killed or maimed by shelling, and where they may be
captured by the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> and tortured, executed, or kidnapped and
taken to Russia.  Perhaps it is because they have no place to flee to
and survive.

 


title: Ukrainians targeted with long-range missiles
uri: Ukrainians-targeted-with-long-range-missiles
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Ukrainians_targeted_with_long-range_missiles)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Ukrainians_targeted_with_long-range_missiles)

content:
 
<p>
Putin is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/16/at-least-37-dead-as-ukraine-braces-for-further-russian-strikes">targeting Ukrainian civilians</a> with long-range missiles.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Corporate_control)
title: Corporate control
uri: Corporate-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Corporate_control)
content:
 
<p>
Ralph Nader: <a href="https://mailchi.mp/nader/students-campuses-and-dominant-corporate-power-hyemiho8y2?e=555e9be067">corporations control almost everything in the US
universities of today</a>, including the basic assumptions that courses
take for granted and inculcate.
<p>
This also includes the software courses use, which gives corporations
power over every student.

 


title: (Satire) Poorly functioning low-speed trains
uri: (Satire)-Poorly-functioning-low-speed-trains
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_((Satire)_Poorly_functioning_low-speed_trains)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_((Satire)_Poorly_functioning_low-speed_trains)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *China Worried U.S. <a href="https://www.theonion.com/china-worried-u-s-outpacing-them-on-poorly-functioning-1849179085">Outpacing [It]</a> On Poorly Functioning
Low-Speed Trains.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click
and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as
lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Job_growth_slowing)
title: Job growth slowing
uri: Job-growth-slowing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Job_growth_slowing)
content:
 
<p>
US job growth is slowing down, and so is the increase in wages.
It would be <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/08/new-jobs-report-shows-fed-should-halt-harmful-rate-hikes">foolish to raise interest rates</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Party_of_Extremism)
title: Party of Extremism
uri: Party-of-Extremism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Party_of_Extremism)
content:
 
<p>
Jim Hightower: *The GOP as a whole has mutated from a conservative
party with some extremist factions to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/13/its-not-just-trump-whole-gop-has-embraced-his-craziness">effectively proclaiming
itself the Party of Extremism</a>.*
<p>
Potential 2024 candidates are competing to be the most extreme fanatic.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Uber_in_Australia_launched_illegally)
title: Uber in Australia launched illegally
uri: Uber-in-Australia-launched-illegally
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Uber_in_Australia_launched_illegally)
content:
 
<p>
*The Uber files: firm knew <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/15/the-uber-files-australia-launched-operated-illegally-document-leak">it launched illegally in Australia, then leaned on
governments to change the law</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Rebuild_US_microchip_industry)
title: Rebuild US microchip industry
uri: Rebuild-US-microchip-industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Rebuild_US_microchip_industry)
content:
 
<p>
Bernie Sanders: *Let's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/14/us-microchip-industry-bernie-sanders">rebuild the US microchip industry &mdash; not give it
a $50bn-plus check</a>.*
<p>
*&hellip; in order to make more profits, these companies took
government money and used it to ship good-paying jobs abroad. Now, as a
reward for that bad behavior, these same companies are in line to
receive a giant taxpayer handout to undo the damage that they did.*
<p>
If the US government does give these companies a subsidy, it should attach
conditions &mdash; let us turn off the DRM, the management engine, and so on.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Fed_rate_hike_warning)
title: Fed rate hike warning
uri: Fed-rate-hike-warning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Fed_rate_hike_warning)
content:
 
<p>
*Economists Warn More Fed Rate Hikes Would "<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/13/economists-warn-more-fed-rate-hikes-would-push-millions-out-work">Push Millions Out of Work</a>."*

 


title: Basis of representative democracy attacked
uri: Basis-of-representative-democracy-attacked
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Basis_of_representative_democracy_attacked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Basis_of_representative_democracy_attacked)

content:
 
<p>
Accusing the US Supreme Court of deliberately <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/13/analysis-details-how-anti-democratic-supreme-court-has-hit-rock-bottom">attacking the basis of
representative democracy</a>, and fabricating far-fetched pretexts to do
so.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_((Satire)_Metal_spikes)
title: (Satire) Metal spikes
uri: (Satire)-Metal-spikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_((Satire)_Metal_spikes)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Increasingly Unhinged Eric Garcetti <a href="https://www.theonion.com/increasingly-unhinged-eric-garcetti-covers-own-body-wit-1849107363">Covers Own Body With
Metal Spikes</a> To Prevent Homeless People From Sleeping On Him.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click
and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as
lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Urgent:_Tax_billionaires'_wealth)
title: Urgent: Tax billionaires' wealth
uri: Urgent-Tax-billionaires-wealth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_July_2022_(Urgent:_Tax_billionaires'_wealth)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/democracy-has-a-billionaire-problem-the-solution-tell-congress-to-tax-billionaire-wealth-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-democracy-for-america&source=group-democracy-for-america">tax billionaires' wealth</a>.

 


title: Heatwave eviscerated idea on extreme weather
uri: Heatwave-eviscerated-idea-on-extreme-weather
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Heatwave_eviscerated_idea_on_extreme_weather)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Heatwave_eviscerated_idea_on_extreme_weather)

content:
 
<p>
George Monbiot: *This heatwave has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/18/heatwave-extreme-weather-uk-climate-crisis">eviscerated the idea</a> that small
changes can tackle extreme weather.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_((Satire)_Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch)
title: (Satire) Great Pacific Garbage Patch
uri: (Satire)-Great-Pacific-Garbage-Patch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_((Satire)_Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Deckhand Scolded For <a href="https://www.theonion.com/deckhand-scolded-for-throwing-trash-on-floor-of-ship-wh-1849106962">Throwing Trash On Floor Of Ship</a> When
Great Pacific Garbage Patch Right There.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click
and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as
lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


title: Imitation grass bad for environment and wildlife
uri: Imitation-grass-bad-for-environment-and-wildlife
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Imitation_grass_bad_for_environment_and_wildlife)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Imitation_grass_bad_for_environment_and_wildlife)

content:
 
<p>
Artificial imitation grass is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/17/why-fake-grass-is-far-from-green-in-ways-you-might-not-guess">bad for the environment and for
wildlife</a>, requires time-consuming maintenance, and gets much hotter
than real grass.  And it has to be watered (washed).

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Monopolists_and_food_prices)
title: Monopolists and food prices
uri: Monopolists-and-food-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Monopolists_and_food_prices)
content:
 
<p>
*Monopolists <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/15/why-food-prices-are-rising-even-more">control nearly every part of the food production process</a>.*
And they are driving up food prices.
<p>
When the government regulators permitted these mergers, they were
abandoning their mission.  This was obvious, but democracy in the
US had been undermined to the point where we could not get anyone
to stop it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Asymmetrical_warfare)
title: Asymmetrical warfare
uri: Asymmetrical-warfare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Asymmetrical_warfare)
content:
 
<p>
*Democrats are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/15/democrats-are-facing-asymmetrical-warfare-its-time-to-wake-up-and-fight-back">facing asymmetrical warfare</a>. It's time to wake up and
fight back.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(EU_mass_surveillance)
title: EU mass surveillance
uri: EU-mass-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(EU_mass_surveillance)
content:
 
<p>
The European Union is proposing a system of <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-online-child-abuse-law-make-us-less-safe/">massive surveillance of
all internet communication</a>, in the name of "protecting children".
<p>
The two standard excuses for proposing repressive measures are
"protecting children" and "stopping terrorism".  These goals, while
valid, are perfect for making citizens panic and rush to support the
measures despite their danger.
<p>
MEP Patrick Breyer, who opposes the scheme,
has prepared <a href="https://chatcontrol.eu/">a web site that explains a lot more</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Biden_threatens_to_attack_Iran)
title: Biden threatens to attack Iran
uri: Biden-threatens-to-attack-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Biden_threatens_to_attack_Iran)
content:
 
<p>
Biden <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/14/biden-says-he-would-go-war-iran-last-resort">threatened to attack Iran</a> to prevent its developing nuclear weapons.
<p>
As the article says, "It makes absolutely zero sense that he won't
delist the IRGC [revolutionary guards] to prevent an Iranian nuke but
would launch a war to prevent an Iranian nuke."  In addition, such an
attack is much harder than it sounds.  The crucial facilities are
underground and Iran has years of experience resisting Israel's
attacks.
<p>
Threatening Iran is also likely to drive it into a closer alliance
with Putin.  How foolish.

 


title: Urgent: Lower prescription drug prices
uri: Urgent-Lower-prescription-drug-prices
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Urgent:_Lower_prescription_drug_prices)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Urgent:_Lower_prescription_drug_prices)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-senate-lower-prescription-drug-prices-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-one-cool-trick-to-lower-inflation">lower prescription drug prices now</a>.

 


title: Anti-abortion judge's nomination plan dropped
uri: Anti-abortion-judge-s-nomination-plan-dropped
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Anti-abortion_judge's_nomination_plan_dropped)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Anti-abortion_judge's_nomination_plan_dropped)

content:
 
<p>
Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/15/politics/kentucky-conservative-anti-abortion-federal-judgeship-biden/index.html">dropped the plan</a> to nominate an anti-abortion Republican as
federal judge.
He cited opposition by Republican Senator Paul, and did not give credit to
the campaign for this.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Republican_House_of_Representatives)
title: Republican House of Representatives
uri: Republican-House-of-Representatives
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Republican_House_of_Representatives)
content:
 
<p>
If Republicans <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/15/politics/house-republicans-investigation-plans-trump/index.html">take the House of Representatives</a>, they will conduct
investigations of their enemies and attack the usual scapegoats.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Heat_harming_agriculture)
title: Heat harming agriculture
uri: Heat-harming-agriculture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Heat_harming_agriculture)
content:
 
<p>
Formerly unusual heat is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/14/weather/flash-drought-texas-massachusetts-climate/index.html">harming agriculture</a> across the US.
<p>
I think we must expect food shortage to become normal.
<p>
Does drought include West Virginia?  If so, it might be used
to pressure Manchin.

 


title: Anti-abortion GOP event's corporate donors
uri: Anti-abortion-GOP-event-s-corporate-donors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Anti-abortion_GOP_event's_corporate_donors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Anti-abortion_GOP_event's_corporate_donors)

content:
 
<p>
*Leak reveals <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/07/15/leak-reveals-corporate-donors-at-anti-abortion-gop-event-tik-tok-comcast-3m-general-motors-johnson-johnson-anheuser-busch-juul-koch-industries-lowes-and-walmart.html">corporate donors at anti-abortion GOP event</a>: Tik Tok,
Comcast, 3M, General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, Anheuser-Busch, Juul,
Koch Industries, Lowe's and Walmart.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Republicans_using_misleading_emails)
title: Republicans using misleading emails
uri: Republicans-using-misleading-emails
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Republicans_using_misleading_emails)
content:
 
<p>
Some Republicans have used <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/15/why-the-gop-wants-to-break-your-spam-filter-gop-candidate-tricked-gullible-voters-into-funding-him-with-misleading-spam-emails/">misleading fund-raising emails</a>,
and now Republicans are pressuring businesses to exempt
their fund-raising emails from laws against spam.  They also
want to pass a law that their emails cannot be treated as spam.

 


title: Rubio's cruel plan for premature parent death
uri: Rubio-s-cruel-plan-for-premature-parent-death
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Rubio's_cruel_plan_for_premature_parent_death)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Rubio's_cruel_plan_for_premature_parent_death)

content:
 
<p>
With Rubio's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/07/rubios-cruel-paid-leave-plan-forces-families-pay-back-benefits-after-parents">plan for parental leave loans against Social Security</a>,
*"when mom or dad tragically dies a few years after having their
third kid, the surviving spouse will have to send a big fat check to
the SSA,"* until it is all paid back.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Manchin's_bad_faith_negotiating)
title: Manchin's bad faith negotiating
uri: Manchin-s-bad-faith-negotiating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Manchin's_bad_faith_negotiating)
content:
 
<p>
Senator Manchin <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/15/joe-manchin-climate-funding-tax-hikes">killed any possible climate defense bill</a>, after spending a year
negotiating details of it.
<p>
This strikes me as negotiating in bad faith.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Lytton_fires)
title: Lytton fires
uri: Lytton-fires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Lytton_fires)
content:
 
<p>
The town of Lytton, in British Columbia, was destroyed by a fire.
Some residents have rebuilt their homes, and now they have been
told to evacuate because <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/15/lytton-british-columbia-wildfire-threatened">another fire threatens the town</a>.

 


title: Saudi exiles speak out as Biden meets crown prince
uri: Saudi-exiles-speak-out-as-Biden-meets-crown-prince
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(saudi_arabia_exiles_dissidents_biden_crown_prince)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(saudi_arabia_exiles_dissidents_biden_crown_prince)

content:
 
<p>
Legal abortion has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/15/abortion-has-always-been-safer-than-pregnancy-and-childbirth">always been safer than giving birth.</a>

 


title: *House Dems Call for Suspension of Aid if Brazilian Military Attempts Election Coup*
uri: House-Dems-Call-for-Suspension-of-Aid-if-Brazilian-Military-Attempts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(house_dems_aid_suspension_military_election_coup)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(house_dems_aid_suspension_military_election_coup)

content:
 
<p>
*House Dems Call for Suspension of Aid if Brazilian 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/07/house-dems-call-suspension-aid-if-brazilian-military-attempts-election-coup">Military Attempts Election
Coup.</a>*
<p>
I predict that Republicans will oppose it, because they regard Bolsonaro
as one of them.

 


title: The detailed progressive program for federal protection of abortion rights.
uri: The-detailed-progressive-program-for-federal-protection-of-abortion-ri
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(blueprint_federal_action_reproductive_freedom)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(blueprint_federal_action_reproductive_freedom)

content:
 
<p>
The detailed progressive program for 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/15/progressives-release-blueprint-federal-action-reproductive-freedom">federal protection of abortion rights.</a>
<p>
It may not be easy to codify various individual rights in federal law
in a way that the 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/10/2109545/-End-Around-the-Rightwing-Supreme-Court-Agenda?_=2022-07-10T16:16:25.000-07:00">radical Supreme Court can't attack.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(ai_web_accessibility)
uri: Many-blind-internauts-say-that-nonfree-website-enhancers-make-web-site
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(ai_web_accessibility)
title:
 Many blind internauts say that nonfree website enhancers make web
sites harder to use, not easier. 

content:
 
<p>
Many blind internauts say that nonfree website enhancers make web
sites harder to use, 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/technology/ai-web-accessibility.html">not easier.</a>
<p>
If you judge by convenience alone, you might think it is unfortunate
that these proprietary website enhancers don't work well.  But what if
they did?  Freedom-disrespecting web sites would benefit from them,
while web sites in the Free World would be obliged to reject them.
<p>
In addition, I suspect these enhancers trample the visitors' freedom
by sending nonfree JavaScript code that users are compelled to run.
If so, then were they fixed to work well, they would give visitors
convenience in exchange for their freedom.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(un_cop27_lgbtq_climate_crisis)
title: Calls to move the Cop27 climate conference out of Egypt
uri: Calls-to-move-the-Cop27-climate-conference-out-of-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(un_cop27_lgbtq_climate_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
Calls to move the Cop27 climate conference out of Egypt, because Egypt
is planning to keep activists away from the government representatives
and because queer people attending 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/15/un-cop27-egypt-lgbtq-climate-crisis">face the threat of arrest and torture.</a>
<p>
It should have been obvious in advance that Egypt was a bad place to hold
an international conference, so why was the plan made to hold it there?
Perhaps <Em>because</Em> it is a bad place. Many conferences have been sited
in countries that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/21/cop27-is-in-egypt-next-year-but-will-anyone-be-allowed-to-protest">will prevent protestors from showing up.</a>
<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(suicide_six_ski_resort_name_change)
title: Suicide six ski resort changing it's name
uri: Suicide-six-ski-resort-changing-it-s-name
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(suicide_six_ski_resort_name_change)
content:
 
<p>
The Suicide Six ski lodge is changing it's name because people criticized
use of the word 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/suicide-six-ski-resort-new-name-saskadena-vermont">"suicide" as insensitive.</a>
<p>
I firmly oppose the campaign to make such words unacceptable to use.
It was already going too far to demand everyone avoid any word that
someone might take offense at. But this pressure demands even more.
It demands we tiptoe through life, always timid because of possible
sensitivity.
<p>
I can imagine the same critics demanding that the Grateful Dead change it's name &mdash; or else, that radio stations boycott it's music.

 


title: China has arrested four Hong Kongers, former democracy activists, for trying to escape.
uri: China-has-arrested-four-Hong-Kongers-former-democracy-activists-for
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(hong_kong_men_arrested_for_trying_to_flee)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(hong_kong_men_arrested_for_trying_to_flee)

content:
 
<p>
China has arrested four Hong Kongers, former democracy activists, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/14/four-hong-kong-men-arrested-while-attempting-to-flee-to-taiwan"> for
trying to escape.</a>

 


uri: Island-nations-in-the-Pacific-Ocean-are-trying-to-unite-to-fight-their
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(island_nations_pacific_ocean_global_warming)

title:
 Island nations in the Pacific Ocean are trying to unite to fight their common enemy: global heating. 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(island_nations_pacific_ocean_global_warming)

content:
 
<p>
Island nations in the Pacific Ocean are trying to unite to fight their 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/15/the-seas-are-rising-on-pacific-islands-nations-but-so-is-their-powerful-resistance-forum">common enemy: global heating.</a>

 


title: Chevron falls short of its target
uri: Chevron-falls-short-of-its-target
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(chevron_falls_on_carbon_capture_target)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(chevron_falls_on_carbon_capture_target)

content:
 
<p>
A large carbon capture and storage project in Australia fell very short
of its target &mdash; perhaps just half what it was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/16/gas-giant-chevron-falls-further-behind-on-carbon-capture-targets-for-gorgon-gasfield">supposed to capture.</a>
<p>
This came with a penalty &mdash; Chevron had to buy and use up carbon offsets
to make up for the difference.  As we know, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/29/chris-bowen-to-announce-review-of-carbon-credits-system-after-expert-labelled-it-a">many of these offsets are
bogus.</a>
<p>
I say the idea of carbon offsets should be replaced with carbon
emission taxes.
<p>
Chevron is, of course, culpable for persecuting Steven Donziger for
representing the Ecuadorians whose land was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/08/chevron-amazon-ecuador-steven-donziger-erin-brockovich">polluted by its oil
extraction there.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Homeless_repressed_by_LA_thugs)
title: Homeless repressed by LA thugs
uri: Homeless-repressed-by-LA-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Homeless_repressed_by_LA_thugs)
content:
 
<p>
As LA thugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/18/california-homelessness-crisis-mojave-desert">repress homeless people</a>, they end up in the Mojave desert with
no running water.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Punish_lying_or_misleading_officials)
title: Punish lying or misleading officials
uri: Punish-lying-or-misleading-officials
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Punish_lying_or_misleading_officials)
content:
 
<p>
A proposal to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/18/the-big-idea-should-we-have-a-truth-law">punish elected officials</a> for lying or misleading the
public.

 


title: Biden could block Mountain Valley Pipeline
uri: Biden-could-block-Mountain-Valley-Pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Biden_could_block_Mountain_Valley_Pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Biden_could_block_Mountain_Valley_Pipeline)

content:
 
<p>
Biden could put Manchin in his place by <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/15/biden-urged-respond-manchin-killing-west-virginia-fracked-gas-pipeline">blocking the Mountain Valley
Pipeline</a>.  More importantly, it would show his commitment to limiting greenhouse
gases.
<p>
I wonder whether his various decisions in favor of some large fossil
fuel investments (which would increase fossil fuel consumption for
decades) might be an attempt to buy acquiescence of some fossil fuel
interests.  If so, it did not work.  It may have struck then as
weakness, leading them to demand more.
<p>
The only acceptable way to make a deal with <a href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a> is to
insist that nothing in the deal is final until the closing.  Never
let them get anything "on credit", because they will cheat.

 


title: Decades of bigotry against Korean-Japanese
uri: Decades-of-bigotry-against-Korean-Japanese
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Decades_of_bigotry_against_Korean-Japanese)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Decades_of_bigotry_against_Korean-Japanese)

content:
 
<p>
Right-wing extremists in Japan are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/18/utoro-is-my-identity-can-a-museum-heal-the-scars-of-korean-migrants-in-japan">scapegoating Korean-Japanese</a>
who have been subject to bigotry for many decades.
<p>
Friends have told me that parents of ethnic Japanese refuse to let
their children marry people of Korean descent.  They investigate
potential spouses' families to check this.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Unusual_forest_fires)
title: Unusual forest fires
uri: Unusual-forest-fires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Unusual_forest_fires)
content:
 
<p>
The latest heat wave has brought <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/17/forest-fires-rage-across-europe-as-heatwave-sends-temperatures-soaring">unusual forest fires</a> to countries on or near
the Mediterranean.
This is just a taste.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_((Satire)_Low_poll_numbers)
title: (Satire) Low poll numbers
uri: (Satire)-Low-poll-numbers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_((Satire)_Low_poll_numbers)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Aides Concerned Low Poll Numbers Could Drive Biden To <a href="https://www.theonion.com/aides-concerned-low-poll-numbers-could-drive-biden-to-d-1849173670">Do
Something Drastically Popular</a>.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click
and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as
lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


title: Children deep in poverty stealing food from schools
uri: Children-deep-in-poverty-stealing-food-from-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Children_deep_in_poverty_stealing_food_from_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Children_deep_in_poverty_stealing_food_from_schools)

content:
 
<p>
*Children in England in deep poverty "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/jul/14/children-in-england-mired-in-deep-poverty-stealing-food-and-tissues-from-schools">stealing food from schools</a>."*
<p>
I expect Tories will propose to put the children (or their parents) in
prison for this.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Christian_Taliban)
title: Christian Taliban
uri: Christian-Taliban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Christian_Taliban)
content:
 
<p>
The Christian Taliban are a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/14/gops-army-christian-nationalists-and-white-supremacists-pose-danger-greater-you">big threat to the United States</a>.
<p>
They recruit the support of other movements by appealing to their
shared hatred for the state.  They recruit support from white
nationalist pagans, despite their religious disagreement.
<p>
They recruit support from <a href="/glossary.html#anti">antisocialists</a> (the article uses their
misleading propaganda term for themselves, "libertarian") even though
those <a href="/glossary.html#anti">antisocialists</a> would hate the theocratic state.  For them, "a
utopian past is one in which 13-year-old boys work in coal mines and
their adolescent sisters toil 12 hours a day in cotton mills."
<p>
The Muslim Taliban of Afghanistan did not hide their aim to impose
Islamist repression on their country.  The Christian Taliban of the US
lie about their goals.
<p>
*Not One Single Republican Votes for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/14/not-one-single-republican-votes-probe-neo-nazis-us-military-and-police">Probe of Neo-Nazis in US Military
and Police</a>.*

 


title: Almost 50 countries relaxed abortion laws
uri: Almost-50-countries-relaxed-abortion-laws
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Almost_50_countries_relaxed_abortion_laws)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Almost_50_countries_relaxed_abortion_laws)

content:
 
<p>
Almost 50 counties have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/16/we-need-post-roe-strategy-long-haul-global-feminists-offer-blueprint">relaxed abortion laws</a> due to feminist
campaigns.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(When_US_has_coup_of_its_own)
title: When US has coup of its own
uri: When-US-has-coup-of-its-own
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(When_US_has_coup_of_its_own)
content:
 
<p>
*When a Country That's Orchestrated Many Coups <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/16/when-country-thats-orchestrated-many-coups-has-one-its-own">Has One of Its Own</a>.*
<p>
This article does not mention the US-organized coups in <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#07%20January%202011%20(1954%20Corporate%20Coup)">Guatemala</a> (successful),
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-jan-apr.html#26%20January%202004%20(fake%20Cuba%20attack)">Cuba</a> (failed)
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jul-oct.html#19_August_2020_(UK_agent_who_organized_the_1953_coup_in_Iran_describes_everything_in_an_interview)">Iran</a> (successful), nor the recent coups in
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-may-aug.html#29%20June%202009%20(Military%20in%20Honduras%20overthrew%20President%20Zelaya)">Honduras</a> (successful),
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#17_November_2019_(The_right-wing_coup_in_Bolivia)">Bolivia</a> (successful for a year)
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-mar-jun.html#5_May_2020_(Coup_d'%C3%A9tat)">Venezuela</a> (failed).

 


title: Worldwide economic damage by five countries
uri: Worldwide-economic-damage-by-five-countries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Worldwide_economic_damage_by_five_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Worldwide_economic_damage_by_five_countries)

content:
 
<p>
Researchers have estimated the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/12/world/greenhouse-gas-climate-emissions-gdp-loss-us-china/index.html">economic damage caused to the world</a> by
the greenhouse gas emissions of the five main emitting countries:
United States, China, Russia, India, and Brazil: a total of 6 trillion
dollars.
<p>
With this. the rest of the world can sue these companies for damages.

 


title: Women who wish they had not had children
uri: Women-who-wish-they-had-not-had-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Women_who_wish_they_had_not_had_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Women_who_wish_they_had_not_had_children)

content:
 
<p>
Women who wish they <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/16/women-who-wish-they-werent-mothers-roe-v-wade-abortion">had not had children</a> tell their stories.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Fired_for_being_against_racism)
title: Fired for being against racism
uri: Fired-for-being-against-racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Fired_for_being_against_racism)
content:
 
<p>
*Texas Official Admits Beloved Black Principal Was <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/grapevine-colleyville-school-official-admits-principal-james-whitfield-was-fired-for-being-against-racism?ref=home">Fired for Being
Against Racism</a>.* The Republicans confusedly equated trying to
discourage racism with teaching "critical race theory".


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(SWAT_thugs_kill_child)
title: SWAT thugs kill child
uri: SWAT-thugs-kill-child
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(SWAT_thugs_kill_child)
content:
 
<p>
Albuquerque SWAT <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> started a fire with a flashbang grenade, and it
may have <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/07/11/whatever-you-do-local-news-dont-write-cops-kill-innocent-teen-in-flashbang-fire.html">killed a child who was a bystander</a>.  Local TV news told the
story, obfuscating it so heavily that readers can hardly see those
facts in the the story.

 


title: Establishment view on fixing Sri Lanka
uri: Establishment-view-on-fixing-Sri-Lanka
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Establishment_view_on_fixing_Sri_Lanka)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Establishment_view_on_fixing_Sri_Lanka)

content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/15/asia/sri-lanka-crisis-economy-fix-gotabaya-rajapaksa-saturday-intl-hnk/index.html">establishment view of what is needed to "fix" Sri Lanka</a>.
Its idea of what "fixing" means does not include enabling the country
to save the non-rich.
<p>
The IMF does not "bail out" countries to save them.  Rather, it gives
them a chance to sell themselves into slavery.  For instance, it has a
long history of imposing "structural adjustments" that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_(IMF_imposing_hardship_on_non-rich)">reduce the
incomes of the non-rich</a>, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#22_April_2011_(Honduran_Destruction)">require payment for public education</a>, and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-jul-oct.html#13%20October%202007%20(Payments%20to%20the%20IMF)">destroy public health programs</a>.
<p>
I think Sri Lanka's only chance is to make the west and China compete
to offer a deal that doesn't enslave the country.
<p>
More generally, we need world systems that stop politicians from
stealing a country's income, sending it overseas, and leaving the
country and its non-rich crushed by debt.

 


title: Legal abortion safer than giving birth
uri: Legal-abortion-safer-than-giving-birth
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Legal_abortion_safer_than_giving_birth)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_July_2022_(Legal_abortion_safer_than_giving_birth)

content:
 
<p>
Legal abortion has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/15/abortion-has-always-been-safer-than-pregnancy-and-childbirth">always been safer than giving birth.</a>

 


title: Business-supremacy treaty without debate
uri: Business-supremacy-treaty-without-debate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Business-supremacy_treaty_without_debate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Business-supremacy_treaty_without_debate)

content:
 
<p>

The Tories arranged a business-supremacy treaty with the previous
(planet-roaster) Australian government, and now want to ratify it
without debate.  Climate defenders are suing under another treaty
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/18/green-groups-in-last-ditch-bid-to-block-uk-australia-trade-deal-brexit">demand debate</a> and examination of this agreement.
<p>
Why doesn't the new Australian government insist on renegotiation?
<p>
We must expect by default that <a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">any business-supremacy treaty is bad,
but here's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/18/brexit-trade-deals-deforestation-malaysia-palm-oil">more</a> about what's bad in this one.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Call_for_one-day_boycott_of_Uber)
title: Call for one-day boycott of Uber
uri: Call-for-one-day-boycott-of-Uber
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Call_for_one-day_boycott_of_Uber)
content:
 
<p>

A UK union representing gig workers calls for a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/17/union-calls-on-uk-uber-users-to-join-24-hour-strike-uber-files">one-day boycott of
Uber</a>.
<p>
If only Uber's injustice against workers concerns you, that is a
natural response.  But if Uber's injustice against customers concerns
you too, I suggest going on a permanent boycott, <a href="/uber.html">as I have</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Britain's_a_hothouse)
title: Britain's a hothouse
uri: Britain-s-a-hothouse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Britain's_a_hothouse)
content:
 
<p>

*The terrifying truth: Britain’s a hothouse, but one day <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/18/britain-hothouse-extreme-weather">40C will seem cool</a>.*
The article explains the practical consequences that will certainly
bring.
<p>
The article says "equitable", but the intended meaning belongs to the
word "equable."  What a big difference!
<p>
Please do not have <a href="/articles/children.html ">children</a>!  Each additional birth will cause <em>more</em>
than one additional death later this century.  How much more than one,
I am unable to estimate.

 


title: Republicans threatening Indiana doctor
uri: Republicans-threatening-Indiana-doctor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Republicans_threatening_Indiana_doctor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Republicans_threatening_Indiana_doctor)

content:
 
<p>

Republicans are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/15/doctor-10-year-old-rape-victim-abortion">lying about and threatening</a> the Indiana doctor
who carried out an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim,
who was compelled to go Indiana because Ohio's right-wing law
did not allow her to get an abortion there.
<p>
Many Republicans now actively defend forcing people who have been
raped to have babies.  It is consistent with their religious beliefs,
and it shows how cruel and arbitrary those beliefs are.

 


title: New Zealand company lawsuit against US web service
uri: New-Zealand-company-lawsuit-against-US-web-service
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(New_Zealand_company_lawsuit_against_US_web_service)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(New_Zealand_company_lawsuit_against_US_web_service)

content:
 
<p>

A New Zealand company <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/19/glassdoor-ordered-to-reveal-identity-of-negative-reviewers-to-new-zealand-toymaker">sued a US web service</a> demanding it identify the people who posted harsh reviews of the company as an employer.  The US
court decided the case based on New Zealand's laws, which don't
protect free speech as the US does.
<p>
The weakness of protection of freedom of speech outside the US is one
of the main reasons I have been reluctant to live outside the US.  The
other countries are not getting better, not at all, but the Christian
Taliban threaten to make the US far, far worse.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Tories_plan_to_promote_more_flying)
title: Tories plan to promote more flying
uri: Tories-plan-to-promote-more-flying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Tories_plan_to_promote_more_flying)
content:
 
<p>

The Tories plan to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/19/britain-boiling-jet-zero-aviation-strategy-uk-expand-heatwave-climate-crisis">promote more flying</a> in the UK, presuming that
future technology will eliminate the greenhouse gas emissions of all
those flights.
<p>
Betting on future technology to reduce the greenhouse emissions of
common activities is utterly foolish.  Lobbyists always present such a bet
as a sure thing, or close enough one can treat it as a sure thing.
They are surely exaggerating, and we must not trust them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Information_that_cars_will_collect)
title: Information that cars will collect
uri: Information-that-cars-will-collect
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Information_that_cars_will_collect)
content:
 
<p>

*   In the near future, cars will not only <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/china-cars-surveillance-national-security/">collect information</a> about their
   driver and passengers, but the vehicles, pedestrians, and city around
   them.*  <em>Unless we stop them!</em>
<p>
The reliable way to prevent this is to make it illegal for cars to
save, or transmit, <em>anything</em> that they see in images from the car's
cameras, <em>anything</em> that their microphones hear, and <em>anything</em> else
that their sensors collect.
<p>
This will demonstrate to the public that they don't need to fear the
presence of today's cars on our streets.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Combating_high_insuling_prices)
title: Combating high insulin prices
uri: Combating-high-insulin-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Combating_high_insuling_prices)
content:
 
<p>

*California will start <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/insulin-gavin-newsom-california-state-makes-own-to-fight-rising-prices/">making its own insulin</a> to combat high [insulin] prices,
governor says.*

 


title: What activities AIs will be permitted to be used for
uri: What-activities-AIs-will-be-permitted-to-be-used-for
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(What_activities_AIs_will_be_permitted_to_be_used_for)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(What_activities_AIs_will_be_permitted_to_be_used_for)

content:
 
<p>

The EU is considering the question of <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/europe-law-outlaw-ai/">what activities to permit AIs
to be used for</a>.
<p>
Using AI to control people's fate creates two kinds of dangers: those
that result when it doesn't do a job reliably but people assume it does,
and those that result when it does do a job reliably.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Mask_mandates_in_Australia)
title: Mask mandates in Australia
uri: Mask-mandates-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Mask_mandates_in_Australia)
content:
 
<p>

The head of the Australian Medical Association <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/20/ama-chief-says-its-time-for-mask-mandates-again-amid-pretty-scary-covid-hospital-numbers">calls for mask mandates</a> to slow the spread of Covid-19.

 


title: Diabetes and cardiovascular risks related to Covid-19
uri: Diabetes-and-cardiovascular-risks-related-to-Covid-19
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Diabetes_and_cardiovascular_risks_related_to_Covid-19)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Diabetes_and_cardiovascular_risks_related_to_Covid-19)

content:
 
<p>

*   People who catch Covid-19 have a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/19/catching-covid-raises-diabetes-cardiovascular-risk-for-weeks-study-finds">greater risk</a> of being diagnosed with
   diabetes and cardiovascular conditions for weeks after the infection.*

 


title: Antisemitism used as "factional weapon"
uri: Antisemitism-used-as-factional-weapon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Antisemitism_used_as_factional_weapon)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Antisemitism_used_as_factional_weapon)

content:
 
<p>

*[The issue of alleged] Antisemitism was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/19/antisemitism-factional-weapon-labour-party-forde-report-finds">used as "factional weapon"</a> in
Labour party,* by both Corbyn's supporters and his enemies.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Cleaning_up_torture_rooms)
title: Cleaning up torture rooms
uri: Cleaning-up-torture-rooms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Cleaning_up_torture_rooms)
content:
 
<p>

*Ukrainian boy held hostage by Russia <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/19/russia-gas-shutoff-eu-countries-europe-recession-imf">tells of cleaning up torture rooms</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Effects_of_Russian_gas_shutoff)
title: Effects of Russian gas shutoff
uri: Effects-of-Russian-gas-shutoff
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_July_2022_(Effects_of_Russian_gas_shutoff)
content:
 
<p>

*Russian gas shutoff would <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/19/russia-gas-shutoff-eu-countries-europe-recession-imf">send some EU countries into recession</a>, IMF warns.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Mauna_Kea_telescope_delayed)
title: Mauna Kea telescope delayed
uri: Mauna-Kea-telescope-delayed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Mauna_Kea_telescope_delayed)
content:
 
<p>
The project to build a giant telescope with a 30-meter mirror on Mauna
Kea is advancing but has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/20/thirty-meter-telescope-mauna-kea-environmental-impact">delayed for a new environmental impact
study</a>.
<p>
Indigenous Hawai'ians demand that we stop the project, but they cite
only their emotions as reasons why, with no rational basis.  They
demand we obey their feelings, but there is no reason we should.
<p>
People who appreciate science look forward to advancing our knowledge
of the history of the universe.  The desire to understand the world is
also emotional, but there is a clear and rational aspect to it as well.
<p>
I hope to live long enough to appreciate some of the discoveries that
this telescope will give us.

 


title: Egypt street photography still repressively prohibited
uri: Egypt-street-photography-still-repressively-prohibited
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Egypt_street_photography_still_repressively_prohibited)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Egypt_street_photography_still_repressively_prohibited)

content:
 
<p>
Egypt still <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/21/egypt-relaxes-street-photography-ban-for-tourists-up-to-a-point">repressively prohibits street photography</a>, even by tourists.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Risk_of_becoming_unlivable)
title: Risk of becoming unlivable
uri: Risk-of-becoming-unlivable
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Risk_of_becoming_unlivable)
content:
 
<p>
*The ferocious heatwave that is gripping much of the US south and west
has highlighted an uncomfortable, ominous trend &mdash; people are continuing
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/20/us-fastest-growing-cities-risk-becoming-unlivable-climate-crisis">flock to the cities that risk becoming unlivable due to the climate
crisis</a>.*

 


title: Kicking Manchin out from Democratic Party
uri: Kicking-Manchin-out-from-Democratic-Party
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Kicking_Manchin_out_from_Democratic_Party)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Kicking_Manchin_out_from_Democratic_Party)

content:
 
<p>
Kicking Manchin out of the Democratic Party would show the public the
truth: that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/20/joe-manchin-democratic-party-kick-out">Republicans (including Manchin) really control the Senate</a>,
and Americans had better vote to replace them.

 


title: Trying to reduce giveaway to chip companies
uri: Trying-to-reduce-giveaway-to-chip-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Trying_to_reduce_giveaway_to_chip_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Trying_to_reduce_giveaway_to_chip_companies)

content:
 
<p>
Bernie Sanders is trying to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/20/sanders-files-amendment-limit-76-billion-corporate-welfare-microchip-industry">reduce the 250-billion giveaway</a> to chip companies.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Urgent:_Phone_your_senators)
title: Urgent: Phone your senators
uri: 2022-07-22-Urgent-Phone-your-senators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Urgent:_Phone_your_senators)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators at <a href="+18557402519">855-740-2519</a> and say you
are disappointed with the Senate for not passing a law
to boost clean energy, reduce medical costs, and raise taxes
for the rich and businesses.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Urgent:_Damage_by_dicamba)
title: Urgent: Damage by dicamba
uri: Urgent-Damage-by-dicamba
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Urgent:_Damage_by_dicamba)
content:
 
<p>
A US appeals court agreed that Monsanto and other companies are responsible
for the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/07/just-beginning-appeals-court-affirms-pesticide-giants-liable-dicamba-drift">damage done when dicamba, a herbicide, drifted onto an orchard
from nearby farms</a>.
<p>
Dicamba is used on genetically modified soybeans and cotton.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Weapons_industry_investment)
title: Weapons industry investment
uri: Weapons-industry-investment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Weapons_industry_investment)
content:
 
<p>
*Weapons Industry's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/07/weapons-industrys-10-million-investment-congress-could-yield-450000-return">$10 Million Investment in [something equivalent to
bribing]</a> Congress Could Yield 450,000% Return.*
<p>
It is misleading to represent large ratios (bigger than 2) using
percentages.  The clear way is with a ratio.  Their return is 4500
times the amount they "invest" in congresscritters.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Oil_railroads)
title: Oil railroads
uri: Oil-railroads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Oil_railroads)
content:
 
<p>
Biden may <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/07/biden-accused-lighting-fuse-one-nations-biggest-carbon-bombs">approve a new oil railroad</a>, which would lock in
increased greenhouse gas emissions in the US.
<p>
Biden should either cancel this, or approve it only after the
passage of a bill that would reduce emissions much more.

 


title: Chinese personal records taken by crackers
uri: Chinese-personal-records-taken-by-crackers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Chinese_personal_records_taken_by_crackers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Chinese_personal_records_taken_by_crackers)

content:
 
<p>
A billion personal data records from Chinese national <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> were
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/07/china-leak-police-database/">taken by crackers and sold</a>.
<p>
Forget about "data protection"!  Our safety depends on <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">prohibiting
the systems that collect data</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(London_heat_wave_caused_many_fires)
title: London heat wave caused many fires
uri: London-heat-wave-caused-many-fires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(London_heat_wave_caused_many_fires)
content:
 
<p>
The high heat in London has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/19/london-fire-brigade-declares-major-incident-after-heatwave-surge-in-fires">caused many fires to break out</a>
inside the metropolitan area.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Joe_Manchin)
title: Joe Manchin
uri: Joe-Manchin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Joe_Manchin)
content:
 
<p>
The OLIGARCH act would <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/19/joe-manchin-just-proved-why-we-need-oligarch-act">establish a graduated tax on wealth</a>.
<p>
I think it is a good idea, except for its use of median household
wealth as a measuring unit.  What if further impoverishment reduces
the median household wealth in the US to a negative number?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Climate_crisis_will_continue)
title: Climate crisis will continue
uri: Climate-crisis-will-continue
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(Climate_crisis_will_continue)
content:
 
<p>
*"The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/19/we-are-sleepwalking-towards-edge-says-greta-uk-sees-hottest-day-record">climate crisis will continue to escalate</a> and get worse as long as
we stick our heads in the sand and prioritize profit and greed over
people and planet," said &hellip; Greta Thunberg.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_((Satire)_EPA_Closes)
title: (Satire) EPA Closes
uri: (Satire)-EPA-Closes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_((Satire)_EPA_Closes)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *EPA Closes Down After <a href="https://www.theonion.com/epa-closes-down-after-running-out-of-salvageable-enviro-1849130461">Running Out Of Salvageable Environment
To Protect</a>.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click
and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as
lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(UK's_living_with_Covid)
title: UK's "living with Covid"
uri: UK-s-living-with-Covid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(UK's_living_with_Covid)
content:
 
<p>
*How [government PR about] "living with Covid" is helping <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/19/how-living-with-covid-is-helping-keep-englands-infections-stubbornly-high">keep
England's infections stubbornly high</a>.*
<p>
This applies more or less to the US as well.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(New_Labor_Plutocratists)
title: "New Labor Plutocratists"
uri: New-Labor-Plutocratists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(New_Labor_Plutocratists)
content:
 
<p>
An investigation showed that Corbyn's opponents ("<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/19/forde-report-labour-racism-sexism-bullying-claims">new Labour" plutocratists</a>) fought bitterly against his supporters.

 


title: Net Neutrality and Broadband Justice Act
uri: Net-Neutrality-and-Broadband-Justice-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(net_neutrality_and_broadband_justice_act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(net_neutrality_and_broadband_justice_act)

content:
 
<p>
A bill to restore the FCC's power to regulate internet connection
services would enable it to once again require 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2022/07/18/net-neutrality-and-broadband-justice-act-would-help-protect-internet-users">its weak standard of
"network neutrality".</a>
<p>
This would be a step forward, but nowhere near 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2019/06/18/none-claimed-benefits-killing-net-neutrality-ever-arrived/">far enough to prevent
snooping.<a/>

 


title: UK Officials raised concerns over Rwanda policy documents show
uri: UK-Officials-raised-concerns-over-Rwanda-policy-documents-show
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(uk_officials_rwanda_concerns_policy_documents_show)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(uk_officials_rwanda_concerns_policy_documents_show)

content:
 
<p>
The Tories are so determined to be cruel to refugees that they pushed ahead
with deportation to Rwanda despite 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/19/uk-officials-raised-concerns-over-rwanda-policy-documents-show">knowing many reasons they should not.</a>
<p>
They are also determined to do it before a court rules on whether it
is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/03/uk-home-office-plans-second-flight-to-deport-asylum-seekers-to-rwanda">lawful in the first place.<a/>
<p>
Thus, it's not just some refugees they plan to do wrong to -- it's
every citizen of the UK.

 


title: Antisemitism controversy at major art show ends with director's resignation
uri: Antisemitism-controversy-at-major-art-show-ends-with-director-s-resign
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(controversy_art_show_directors_resignation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(controversy_art_show_directors_resignation)

content:
 
<p>
Indonesian artists intended to condemn Israel's occupation policies,
but the work they produced appears 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/style/article/documenta-director-resigns-antisemitism-controversy/index.html">very directly antisemitic.</a>
<p>
The artists have apologized for that result.
<p>
The more figurative and "artistically creative" a work is, while also
making a statement about a controversial issue, the it is likely to to
have various of possible interpretations, perhaps including a very
nasty one.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(irs_audits_comey_mccabe)
title: IRS audits: Strange coincidence or new enemies list?
uri: IRS-audits-Strange-coincidence-or-new-enemies-list
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(irs_audits_comey_mccabe)
content:
 
<p>
Was it pure coincidence that two FBI officials that the corrupter fired
were both 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/07/politics/irs-audits-comey-mccabe-what-matters/index.html">audited by the IRS shortly thereafter?</a>
<p>
The IRS said it is "ludicrous" to suspect malice was at work,
but given how Nixon did exactly that to the people on his "enemies list",
and given how that former president was inclined to crookedness,
it would be ludicrous not to suspect him.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(idealogy_of_christian_nationalism)
title: The ideology of Christian nationalism
uri: The-ideology-of-Christian-nationalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(idealogy_of_christian_nationalism)
content:
 
<p>
*   To call this a "culture" war is to understate its true meaning and
   potential danger. Those of us who still believe in separating church
   and state, guarding reproductive rights, ensuring racial equality,
   ending gun violence, and protecting democracy must understand that much
   of the Republican Party now stands for the 
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-republican-party-god-guns-forced">exact opposite of these
   values.</a>*
   
 


uri: Russia-is-using-its-puppet-regimes-in-Luhansk-and-Donetsk-to-force-Ukr
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(pro_russian_separatists_forced_conscription)

title:
 Russia is using its puppet regimes in Luhansk and Donetsk to force Ukrainians
into the Putin forces 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(pro_russian_separatists_forced_conscription)

content:
 
<p>
Russia is using its puppet regimes in Luhansk and Donetsk to force Ukrainians
into the Putin forces, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/20/pro-russian-separatists-step-up-forced-conscription-as-losses-mount">while denying that it is responsible.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(offshore_farming_fish_farms)
uri: Offshore-fish-farms-could-increase-the-total-amount-of-fish-farming-vo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(offshore_farming_fish_farms)
title:
 Offshore fish farms could increase the total amount of fish farming volume of wastes that pollute the ocean. 

content:
 
<p>
Offshore fish farms could increase the total amount of fish farming --
and also the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/20/offshore-fish-farms-a-new-wave-of-food-production-or-the-wild-west-of-ocean-pollution">volume of wastes that pollute the ocean.</a>

 


uri: Documents-prove-that-the-wrecker-and-his-officials-intentionally-set-o
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(census_citizenship_question_trump_exclude_immigrants)

title:
 Documents prove that the wrecker and his officials intentionally set
out to distort census data for partisan purposes 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(census_citizenship_question_trump_exclude_immigrants)

content:
 
<p>
Documents prove that the wrecker and his officials intentionally set
out to distort census data for partisan purposes, and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/20/census-citizenship-question-trump-exclude-immigrants-apportionment">intentionally hid that.</a>
<p>
The plan to add a question about citizenship was blocked, but the
wrecker's officials took other steps to 
<a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/trump-census-apportionment-undocumented-immigrants-fail.html">intimidate non-citizens
so as to skew the census.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_July_2022_(Climate_defense)
title: Climate defense
uri: 2022-07-23-Climate-defense
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_July_2022_(Climate_defense)
content:
 
<p>
Biden said he is taking urgent action for climate defense, but he
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/20/disappointed-climate-speech-activists-say-people-are-dying-while-biden-dithers ">does not seem to be acting with much urgency</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_July_2022_((Satire)_Friend_on_standby)
title: (Satire) Friend on standby
uri: (Satire)-Friend-on-standby
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_July_2022_((Satire)_Friend_on_standby)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Woman Has Friend On Standby To <a href="https://www.theonion.com/woman-has-friend-on-standby-to-drive-car-through-bar-wi-1849134769">Drive Car Through Bar Window</a>
In Case Date Going Badly.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click
and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as
lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_July_2022_(If_Trump_has_no_consequences)
title: If Trump has no consequences
uri: If-Trump-has-no-consequences
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_July_2022_(If_Trump_has_no_consequences)
content:
 
<p>
*If the Jan 6 hearings end without consequences for Trump, the main
takeaway will be: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/21/january-6-hearings-trump-consequences">this is how much you can get away with</a> in 2020s
America.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_July_2022_(Prison_work)
title: Prison work
uri: Prison-work
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_July_2022_(Prison_work)
content:
 
<p>
*How US prison work <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/13/us-prison-work-breaks-bodies-minds-for-pennies">breaks bodies and minds</a> for pennies.*

 


title: Stop cheering for Fetus's right to ride in HOV lane
uri: Stop-cheering-for-Fetus-s-right-to-ride-in-HOV-lane
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_July_2022_(Stop_cheering_for_Fetus's_right_to_ride_in_HOV_lane)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_July_2022_(Stop_cheering_for_Fetus's_right_to_ride_in_HOV_lane)

content:
 
<p>
*Opinion: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/12/opinions/hov-lane-texas-abortion-fetal-personhood-filipovic/index.html">Stop cheering</a> for a fetus's right to ride in an HOV lane.*
<p>
Anything that accepts the claim that a fetus (or even an embryo!)
is a human being will spread the damage to our legal system.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_July_2022_(Democratic_procedure_vulnerabilities)
title: Democratic procedure vulnerabilities
uri: Democratic-procedure-vulnerabilities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_July_2022_(Democratic_procedure_vulnerabilities)
content:
 
<p>
Some Senate Republicans have joined in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/20/bipartisan-senate-group-electoral-count-act">supporting laws to fix many
of the vulnerabilities</a> in US democratic procedures that some fanatical
Republicans tried or propose to exploit.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Not_enough_food_in_food_banks)
title: Not enough food in food banks
uri: Not-enough-food-in-food-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Not_enough_food_in_food_banks)
content:
 
<p>
Food banks in the UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/22/liverpool-food-banks-confront-rising-hunger">don't have enough food</a> for all the hungry people.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Permanent_crisis)
title: Permanent crisis
uri: Permanent-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Permanent_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
*We're living in an age of permanent crisis &mdash; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/22/economic-models-environmental-crises-fantasy-stable-growth-global-heating">let's stop planning for a
"return to normal</a>".*
Governments continue trying to do that.
<p>
It is fundamentally harder to plan for a different world 10 years from now,
and a world 20 years from now that would be different again.
<p>
*Unless we act soon, this heatwave is just <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/22/heatwaves-climate-emergency-act-now">a taste of things to come</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(US_deportation_prisons)
title: US deportation prisons
uri: 2022-07-23-US-deportation-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(US_deportation_prisons)
content:
 
<p>
Complaints from black immigrants in US deportation prison *reveal a
disturbing pattern of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/22/ice-black-immigrants-abuse-medical-neglect">physical abuse and ignoring medical needs</a>.*
<p>
An indigenous prisoner in Australian jail died of a disease that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/22/indigenous-death-in-nsw-jail-from-ear-infection-the-result-of-systemic-failures-coroner">proper medical procedures would have identified</a>.
But they don't follow proper medical procedures with indigenous
prisoners.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Counterattack_to_recapture_Kherson)
title: Counterattack to recapture Kherson
uri: Counterattack-to-recapture-Kherson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Counterattack_to_recapture_Kherson)
content:
 
<p>
Ukraine is preparing a counterattack to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/22/ukrainian-counter-offensive-may-bring-war-to-bloodiest-phase-yet-say-analysts">recapture Kherson</a>.

 


title: Climate protesters glue themselves to glass screen
uri: Climate-protesters-glue-themselves-to-glass-screen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Climate_protesters_glue_themselves_to_glass_screen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Climate_protesters_glue_themselves_to_glass_screen)

content:
 
<p>
The climate protesters of Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/22/climate-activists-in-italy-glue-themselves-to-botticelli-painting">glued themselves
to the glass screen</a> of a famous painting, Primavera by Botticelli.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Restarting_grain_exports)
title: Restarting grain exports
uri: Restarting-grain-exports
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Restarting_grain_exports)
content:
 
<p>
*Ukraine and Russia sign UN-backed deal to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/22/ukraine-russia-sign-un-backed-deal-restart-grain-exports">restart grain exports</a>.*
<p>
There are many ways this plan could fail.  Putin could "implement" it
with bad faith, or make new demands.  But it could also fail despite
sincere efforts by all parties.  I hope it does succeed.

 


title: UN proceeds with case against Burmese government
uri: UN-proceeds-with-case-against-Burmese-government
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(UN_proceeds_with_case_against_Burmese_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(UN_proceeds_with_case_against_Burmese_government)

content:
 
<p>
The UN's International Court of Justice will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/22/genocide-case-against-myanmar-over-rohingya-atrocities-cleared-to-proceed">proceed with a 
case against the Burmese government</a> for genocide of the Rohingya.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Roses_damaged_by_global_heating)
title: Roses damaged by global heating
uri: Roses-damaged-by-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Roses_damaged_by_global_heating)
content:
 
<p>
Global heating effects are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/traditional-british-garden-under-threat-from-extreme-heat-says-rhs">damaging roses in England</a>.

 


title: Satanic Temple prayers at football games
uri: Satanic-Temple-prayers-at-football-games
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Satanic_Temple_prayers_at_football_games)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Satanic_Temple_prayers_at_football_games)

content:
 
<p>
An activist for the Satanic Temple is demanding the right to make
<a href="https://patch.com/florida/miami/activist-asks-lead-satanic-prayer-fl-high-school-football-game">satanic prayers publicly at football games in Florida</a>.

 


title: Arrested for protesting abortion rights
uri: Arrested-for-protesting-abortion-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Arrested_for_protesting_abortion_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Arrested_for_protesting_abortion_rights)

content:
 
<p>
16 members of Congress were among those <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/19/politics/congress-members-arrested-abortion-protest-supreme-court/index.html">arrested for protesting for
abortion rights</a> in the street before the Supreme Court.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Graham_Mansfield)
title: Graham Mansfield
uri: Graham-Mansfield
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Graham_Mansfield)
content:
 
<p>
Graham Mansfield was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/20/manchester-man-on-trial-for-ill-wifes-says-she-asked-him-to-kill-her">tried for murder</a> after killing his wife, Dyanne,
who in great pain from terminal cancer and made him promise to end her
suffering.  Then he tried to kill himself, but he couldn't go through with it.
<p>
I read that he was acquitted of murder.  I hope they do not punish
him.  Staying alive without his dearest is a terrible punishment.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Election_liar)
title: Election liar
uri: Election-liar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Election_liar)
content:
 
<p>
The Republican nominee for governor of Maryland is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/20/politics/dan-cox-maryland-republican-governor-election/index.html">an election liar</a>.
<p>
Marylanders must expect him to lie about elections in the future, too,
including the elections he runs in.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Amazon_and_Chipotle)
title: Amazon and Chipotle
uri: Amazon-and-Chipotle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Amazon_and_Chipotle)
content:
 
<p>
Amazon is harassing warehouse employees with pressure <a href="https://www.engadget.com/amazon-alb-1-anti-union-signage-alu-004207814.html">not to vote
to unionize</a>.
<p>
Workers at a Chipotle outlet filed for union recognition, so the
company <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/19/business/chipotle-union-store-closure/index.html">shut that branch permanently</a>.
<p>
The article sates that since mid-June the branch has been open "only
for staff trainings".  I have a hunch that these "trainings" are
actually union-busting harassment meetings.  This is a standard tactic
used by many companies to fight union organizing.  They order workers
to listen for hours to the propaganda of union-busting consultants,
and perhaps to answer their questions too.
<p>
It could be useful training &hellip; in how to stand firm against the man.
<p>
Do you feel like eating Chipotle's food after reading this?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Extreme_heat)
title: Extreme heat
uri: Extreme-heat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Extreme_heat)
content:
 
<p>
US cities are raising the priority of efforts to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/20/weather/deadly-heat-waves-chief-heat-officers-climate/index.html">adapt to extreme heat</a>,
since heat we now call "extreme" will become normal</a>.
<p>
Most of China has been <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/20/china/china-summer-extreme-weather-climate-change-intl-hnk-mic/index.html">hit badly</a> by extreme heat and extreme rain.
<p>
Will Americans and Chinese recognize that current policies will make this
much worse in a decade or two?  Mere adaptation to a danger while we continue
to make it a little worse every year is not rational, and in the long term
the heat will win the race.

 


title: Urgent: Continue the policy of refusing to sell offensive weapons to Salafi Arabia
uri: Urgent-Continue-the-policy-of-refusing-to-sell-offensive-weapons-to-S
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Urgent:_Continue_the_policy_of_refusing_to_sell_offensive_weapons_to_Salafi_Arabia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Urgent:_Continue_the_policy_of_refusing_to_sell_offensive_weapons_to_Salafi_Arabia)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden
to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/no_saudi_arms_sales_july">continue
the policy of refusing to sell offensive weapons to Salafi Arabia</a>.
<p>
It is very disappointing that instead of calling on the president
to take new actions to end US support for <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>'s war in
Yemen, we have to campaign against increasing that support.

 


title: Urgent: Prosecute the corrupter's campaign for fraudulent fund-raising
uri: Urgent-Prosecute-the-corrupter-s-campaign-for-fraudulent-fund-raising
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Urgent:_Prosecute_the_corrupter's_campaign_for_fraudulent_fund-raising)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#23_July_2022_(Urgent:_Prosecute_the_corrupter's_campaign_for_fraudulent_fund-raising)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call
for <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-the-department-of-justice-prosecute-the-trump-campaign-for-wire-fraud-over-the-big-lie-rip-off?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progress-america&source=group-progress-america">prosecution
of the corrupter's campaign for fraudulent fund-raising</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Fighting_wildfires_in_UK_is_harder)
title: Fighting wildfires in UK is harder
uri: Fighting-wildfires-in-UK-is-harder
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Fighting_wildfires_in_UK_is_harder)
content:
 
<p>

Global heating has made fighting wildfires <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/22/wildfires-fire-service-climate-crisis-staff-cut">much harder</a> in the UK.
The government does nothing about this.

 


title: Political divisions among evangelical Christians
uri: Political-divisions-among-evangelical-Christians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Political_divisions_among_evangelical_Christians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Political_divisions_among_evangelical_Christians)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/20/potential-historic-political-shift-taking-place-among-evangelical-christians">Political divisions are appearing</a> among evangelical Christians.

 


title: Biden pressured to take small steps to defend abortion
uri: Biden-pressured-to-take-small-steps-to-defend-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Biden_pressured_to_take_small_steps_to_defend_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Biden_pressured_to_take_small_steps_to_defend_abortion)

content:
 
<p>

Abortion rights activism <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/20/political-power-pro-choice-activism">pressured Biden</a> to take small steps to defend
access to abortion.  If he had been truly eager, he would not have waited
to be pushed.

 


title: (satire) Ford F-450 comes with shotgun
uri: (satire)-Ford-F-450-comes-with-shotgun
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_((satire)_Ford_F-450_comes_with_shotgun)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_((satire)_Ford_F-450_comes_with_shotgun)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/new-ford-f-450-comes-with-shotgun-in-case-truck-doesn-t-1849130219">*New Ford F-450 Comes With Shotgun In Case Truck Doesn’t Kill
Pedestrian On Impact.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Only_effective_pandemic_response)
title: Only effective pandemic response
uri: Only-effective-pandemic-response
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Only_effective_pandemic_response)
content:
 
<p>

*The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/21/only-effective-pandemic-response-global-one">Only Effective Pandemic Response</a> Is a Global One.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Biden's_tone_in_confronting_Iran)
title: Biden's tone in confronting Iran
uri: Biden-s-tone-in-confronting-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Biden's_tone_in_confronting_Iran)
content:
 
<p>

Biden is confronting Iran in a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/21/why-biden-dangerously-joining-warpath-against-iran">belligerent tone</a>.
<p>
The article asks why he does that.  I have two ideas: (1) to pressure
Iran to resume the non-nuclear deal, and (2) to such up to Crown
Prince Bone Saw so he will sell more oil.  Neither one is a good reason.

 


title: Monarch butterfly listed as endangered
uri: Monarch-butterfly-listed-as-endangered
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Monarch_butterfly_listed_as_endangered)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Monarch_butterfly_listed_as_endangered)

content:
 
<p>

The monarch butterfly is now <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/21/climate-crisis-pushes-migratory-monarch-butterflies-endangered-list">listed as endangered</a>.

 


title: Toilet availability in restaurants and cafes
uri: Toilet-availability-in-restaurants-and-cafes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Toilet_availability_in_restaurants_and_cafes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Toilet_availability_in_restaurants_and_cafes)

content:
 
<p>

Not enough restaurants and cafes allow the public (not limited to
customers) to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/business/starbucks-bathrooms-stores-closing/index.html">use their toilets</a>.
The solution is to pass laws which require them to do so.

 


title: Racial bias in length of prison sentences
uri: Racial-bias-in-length-of-prison-sentences
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Racial_bias_in_length_of_prison_sentences)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Racial_bias_in_length_of_prison_sentences)

content:
 
<p>

Racial bias in length of prison sentences is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/21/prisons-us-racial-equality-black-white-americans">increasing in the US</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Chicago_thug_shot_a_teenager)
title: Chicago thug shot a teenager
uri: Chicago-thug-shot-a-teenager
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Chicago_thug_shot_a_teenager)
content:
 
<p>

A Chicago thug <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/us/chicago-13-year-old-paralyzed-police/index.html">shot a teenager</a> who ran away, as he was putting his hands up
while holding a camera phone. The boy is now paralyzed.
<p>
California thugs <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/20/us/rob-adams-san-bernardino-police-shooting/index.html">killed a man</a> who ran away with a phone in his hand.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Trump_chose_not_to_act)
title: Trump "chose not to act"
uri: Trump-chose-not-to-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Trump_chose_not_to_act)
content:
 
<p>

*House panel says Trump <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/21/january-6-hearing-donald-trump-us-capitol-attack">"chose not to act"</a> during attack on US Capitol.*
<p>
That is a shocking understatement.  The corrupter did much worse than
remain inactive during the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol.  He continued
to <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-key-to-tonights-hearing">egg his followers on</a>, as they rioted, for more than an hour.
<p>
At this point, I think the crucial question is, is there any law
which criminalizes these actions?  There ought to be, but is there any?

 


title: Encamped protesters in Sri Lanka arrested
uri: Encamped-protesters-in-Sri-Lanka-arrested
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Encamped_protesters_in_Sri_Lanka_arrested)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Encamped_protesters_in_Sri_Lanka_arrested)

content:
 
<p>

The new "interim" president of Sri Lanka, chosen by parliament,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/22/sri-lanka-security-forces-raid-protest-camp-as-ranil-wickremesinghe-flexes-muscles">arrested hundreds of encamped protesters</a> shortly before they were
going to leave.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Ukraine_wants_to_put_Putin_on_trial)
title: Ukraine wants to put Putin on trial
uri: Ukraine-wants-to-put-Putin-on-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Ukraine_wants_to_put_Putin_on_trial)
content:
 
<p>

Ukraine wants to put Putin and his high officials <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/21/ukraine-calls-for-international-tribunal-to-bring-putin-to-justice-more-quickly">on trial for war
crimes</a>.
<p>
Threatening to prosecute Putin would be a mistake, if there is any
chance of actually bringing him to justice, because he would continue
the war simply to prevent that, even if he has no chance of actually
winning.
<p>
However, if there is no chance of bringing him to justice, the trial
is just a futile display of anger.

 


