# articles

title: Polycrisis: Human rights vs govt and biz
uri: Polycrisis-Human-rights-vs-govt-and-biz
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Polycrisis:_Human_rights_vs_govt_and_biz)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Polycrisis:_Human_rights_vs_govt_and_biz)

content:
 
<p>
David Boyd, until recently UN special rapporteur on human rights and the environment,
says that government plans to curb global heating are succumbing to the pressure to profit by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy">exploiting people and nature</a>.

<p>
 


title: Liberation Day Anti-Fascist canceled, ITA
uri: Liberation-Day-Anti-Fascist-canceled-ITA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Liberation_Day_Anti-Fascist_cancel,_ITA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Liberation_Day_Anti-Fascist_cancel,_ITA)

content:
 
<p>
Journalists at Italy's public broadcaster plan to strike in protest against
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/italy-rai-journalists-strike-giorgia-meloni-government">censorship
by the right-wing</a> government.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Suspects_vs_a_corporate_software_pkg)
title: Suspects vs a corporate software pkg
uri: Suspects-vs-a-corporate-software-pkg
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Suspects_vs_a_corporate_software_pkg)
content:
 
<p>
A nonfree and secret program is being consulted by courts about how to treat
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/ai-tool-used-thousands-criminal-cases-facing-legal-challenges-rcna149607">individuals
accused of crimes</a>.  That should be forbidden; every method used to evaluate and
partially judge suspects must be entirely disclosed, and courts must be free to
change it so as to follow court rulings about the rights of the accused.  Basically,
courts must use only free software for such purposes.
<p>
The developer claims that the program does "artificial intelligence", but
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligence">that
term</a> is usually bullshit in general.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Political_lies_as_a_crimes)
title: Political lying as criminal, UK
uri: Political-lying-as-criminal-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Political_lies_as_a_crimes)
content:
 
<p>
Wales considers making it a crime for politicians to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/07/lying-politicians-wales-senedd-held-account-uk">lie
to the public</a>.

<p>
 


title: Israel violating US bomb-usage laws, LBN
uri: Israel-violating-US-bomb-usage-laws-LBN
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Israel_violating_US_bomb-usage_laws,_LBN)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Israel_violating_US_bomb-usage_laws,_LBN)

content:
 
<p>
*Israeli airstrike that killed seven
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/israel-airstrike-lebanon-us-weapons-international-law">health
workers in Lebanon</a> used US munition.*
<p>
What conclusion follows from this depends on conclusions that would depend on an
investigation.  If Israeli forces knew it was targeting medical personnel, that was a
war crime.
<p>
If it did not know, it may not have been a war crime. but it should be scandalous
anyway.  Why did they not know?  Did they try hard enough to
<a href="https://stallman.org/arvhives/2024-jan-apr.html#8_April_2024_(Military_AI_databases,_ISR)">identify
the target</a>?  Israel seems to be ready to kill lots of civilians in Gaza.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Biden_pauses_bombs-delivery_to_ISR)
title: Biden pauses bombs-delivery to ISR
uri: Biden-pauses-bombs-delivery-to-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Biden_pauses_bombs-delivery_to_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
Biden has blocked
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/08/biden-hold-arms-shipment-israel">a
large shipment</a> to Israel of large dumb bombs, demanding that Israel start
avoiding harm to Palestinian civilians.
<p>
Thank you, Biden.  You should have done this a few months ago, but better late than never.
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


title: Evacuation immiseration in Rafah, Gaza
uri: Evacuation-immiseration-in-Rafah-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Evacuation_immiseration_in_Rafah,_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Evacuation_immiseration_in_Rafah,_Gaza)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/05/08/israel-rafah-palestine-evacuation-children-unicef/">600,000
Palestinian [minors]</a> in Rafah Can't "Evacuate" Safely, UNICEF Official Says.*

<p>
 


title: Mental illness' childhood-causation, AUS
uri: Mental-illness-childhood-causation-AUS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Mental_illness'_childhood-causation,_AUS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Mental_illness'_childhood-causation,_AUS)

content:
 
<p>
Almost
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/09/huge-proportion-of-mental-health-conditions-in-australia-found-to-be-caused-by-childhood-maltreatment">a
quarter of Australia's cases</a> of depression, anxiety and are caused by childhood
maltreatment and could in principle be prevented.

<p>
 


title: Farmers' climate catastrophe, UK, LATAM
uri: Farmers-climate-catastrophe-UK-LATAM
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Farmers'_climate_catastrophe,_UK,_LATAM)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Farmers'_climate_catastrophe,_UK,_LATAM)

content:
 
<p>
*The climate crisis is making the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/british-farmer-food-climate-crisis-business">farming
business unsustainable</a> &mdash; and without support for us, food security will suffer too.*
<p>
The article claims that a 30% increase in money what farmers receive would make up
for a 30% decrease in crop yields.  In financial terms, it would do that, but it
would not at all fill the 30% shortage in food.  What needs to be subsidized is
curbing <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>, to make farming somewhat reliable again.
<p>
*Climate chaos [in Latin America] is threatening
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/disease-hunger-soar-latin-america-floods-drought-study">food
production, trade and lives</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Climate_scientists:_civ_in_peril_soon)
title: Climate scientists: civ in peril soon
uri: Climate-scientists-civ-in-peril-soon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Climate_scientists:_civ_in_peril_soon)
content:
 
<p>
*World’s top climate scientists expect <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> to blast past 1.5°C target.* They
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature">expect
a 2.5°C rise</a>, which implies disaster.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(bernie_sanders_medical_debt)
title: Cancel all medical debt
uri: Cancel-all-medical-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(bernie_sanders_medical_debt)
content:
 
<p>
*Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna reveal bill aimed at 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/08/bernie-sanders-ro-khanna-medical-debt-bill">eliminating medical debt.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(northern_ireland_police)
title: Defensive operation
uri: Defensive-operation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(northern_ireland_police)
content:
 
<p>
Northern Ireland thugs spied on journalists 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/08/northern-ireland-police-spied-on-investigative-journalists-tribunal-told">that were investigating them.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(natalie_elphicke_tory)
title: Natalie Elphicke
uri: Natalie-Elphicke
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(natalie_elphicke_tory)
content:
 
<p>
Starmer welcomed a defecting Tory MP whose 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/natalie-elphicke-defect-labour-keir-starmer-conservatives">views are very right wing.</a>
<p>
It shows his goal is victory, and never mind for what cause.
<p>
*Natalie Elphicke's queasy welcome shows Labour 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/08/natalie-elphicke-queasy-welcome-shows-labour-will-turn-no-one-away">will turn no one away.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(antisemitism_public_school_push_back)
title: Antisemitism
uri: 2024-05-12-Antisemitism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(antisemitism_public_school_push_back)
content:
 
<p>
*US public school officials push back in congressional 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/08/education-antisemitism-house-hearing">hearing on
 antisemitism.*</a>
<p>
A Republican on the committee accused the officials of lying, based on
no grounds, and then threatened them with wrecking their careers.
That's  a Republican bully for you.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(eleanor_stein_1968_protestor)
title: University protester
uri: University-protester
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(eleanor_stein_1968_protestor)
content:
 
<p>
*What a 1968 Columbia University protester makes of 
<a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/04/26/what-a-1968-columbia-university-protester-makes-of-todays-propalestinian-encampment">today’s pro-Palestinian
encampment.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(Russian_assasins_foiled,_UKR)
title: Russian assassins foiled, UKR
uri: Russian-assassins-foiled-UKR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(Russian_assasins_foiled,_UKR)
content:
 
<p>
A concrete Russian plot
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/zelenskiy-assassination-plot-foiled-by-security-service-says-ukraine">to
assassinate President Zelenskiy</a> has been exposed.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(Rafah_invasion_explainer)
title: Rafah-invasion explainer
uri: Rafah-invasion-explainer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(Rafah_invasion_explainer)
content:
 
<p>
The Israeli army seized the Rafah crossing, the main path for the insufficient aid
that still enters Gaza,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/07/the-guardian-view-on-hope-and-despair-in-gaza-attacking-rafah-will-compound-this-disaster">and
closed it</a>.  If any US aid travels to Gaza that way, US law (as I understand it)
requires cutting off military assistance to Israel.  Promised new routes for aid to
enter Gaza are not possible replacements for the Rafah crossing because they are not
actually ready for use.
<p>
I interpret this as Netanyahu's defiance to Biden: "You weakling, I dare you to obey
that law."  Since then, Biden has suspended delivery of
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#10_May_2024_(Biden_pauses_bombs-delivery_to_ISR)">one
kind of weapon</a> to Israel.  Maybe that was a response telling Netanyahu, "Just you
watch!"  Has he found the courage to go further than that one suspension?
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(The_Saboteur's_Project_2025)
title: The Saboteur's Project 2025
uri: The-Saboteur-s-Project-2025
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(The_Saboteur's_Project_2025)
content:
 
<p>
What <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> told an
interviewer he would do if he wins or steals the election.
<blockquote>
*To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people
from the country &hellip; he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and
deploy the U.S.  military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states
monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would,
at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top
advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order
to prosecute someone,
<a href="https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/">breaking
with a tradition</a> of independent law enforcement that dates from America’s
founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking
the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been
convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or
Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying enough for its own defense. He would gut
the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit,
close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-nov-feb.html#21_February_2024_(The_corruptor_aiming_for_US,_world)">staff
his Administration with acolytes</a> who back his false assertion that the 2020
election was stolen.*
</blockquote>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(Traditional_USA_college_try)
title: Traditional USA "old college try"
uri: Traditional-USA-old-college-try
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(Traditional_USA_college_try)
content:
 
<p>
*[Sacramento State University] will
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/05/08/university-divestment-israel-gaza-protests/">pursue
an investment strategy</a> divested from “corporations & funds that profit from
genocide, ethnic cleansing, and activities that violate fundamental human rights.”*
<p>
Several other US universities have made agreements with student protesters along
roughly similar lines, including two that had first tried violence against the students.
<p>
This is a significant achievement for the student protesters, all the
more so because it is general, not aimed only at Israel.
<p>
In and of itself, that is a good goal, but as a means for ending the
bombardment and siege of Gaza, I fear it is too indirect and too slow.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(NO_to_the_Russian_law,_GEO)
title: NO to the foreign influence bill, GEO
uri: NO-to-the-foreign-influence-bill-GEO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(NO_to_the_Russian_law,_GEO)
content:
 
<p>
Georgia (Sakartvelo)'s government is pushing a repressive law modeled after Putin's
repression of NGOs.  Georgians, especially
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/05/im-in-awe-of-our-young-people-and-their-courage-in-the-face-of-arrests-and-teargas">young
ones, are protesting</a> this.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(Filmmaker's_incarcerations,_Iran)
title: Filmmaker's incarcerations, Iran
uri: Filmmaker-s-incarcerations-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(Filmmaker's_incarcerations,_Iran)
content:
 
<p>
A prominent Iranian film director faces 8 years in prison for making a movie that has
attracted international attention.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/08/iranian-director-sentenced-prison-flogging-mohammad-rasoulof

The idea that the festival would drop the showing of the movie if the government
flogs into saying "Don't show my film!" is offensive.  Film festivals should
disregard whatever the director and other participants are forced to say, and they
should make sure in advance that torturers know that approach is futile.
<p>
 


title: Xi Jinping EU tour, amid spying concerns
uri: Xi-Jinping-EU-tour-amid-spying-concerns
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_May_2024_(Xi_Jinping_EU_tour,_amid_spying_concerns)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_May_2024_(Xi_Jinping_EU_tour,_amid_spying_concerns)

content:
 
<p>
*Rise in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/08/court-chinese-espionage-europe">Chinese
espionage</a> arrests alarms Europe.  Increase in cases reflects changing mood across
continent towards Chinese threats, say experts.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_May_2024_(Militia_of_bad_cops,_FL_state_guard)
title: Militia of bad cops as FL state guard
uri: Militia-of-bad-cops-as-FL-state-guard
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_May_2024_(Militia_of_bad_cops,_FL_state_guard)
content:
 
<p>
<!---->An ex-thug
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/florida-police-javier-ortiz-ron-desantis-state-guard">known for harassment</a>
has been welcomed into Governor <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis's</a>
politicizable militia.
<p>
People like that are public dangers.
He should not be in the National Guard either, nor any <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_May_2024_(On_the_clampdown_of_protesters_in_UK)
title: On the clampdown of protesters in UK
uri: On-the-clampdown-of-protesters-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_May_2024_(On_the_clampdown_of_protesters_in_UK)
content:
 
<p>
* The former director of [UK] public prosecutions for England and Wales has warned
against the risk of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/former-cps-chief-clampdown-protests-risks-creating-thought-crimes">creating
“thought crimes”</a> amid the recent clampdown on protesters and demonization of
demonstrators by politicians.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_May_2024_(When_you're_winning,_jump,_ISR)
title: When you're winning, jump, ISR
uri: When-you-re-winning-jump-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_May_2024_(When_you're_winning,_jump,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
*The Guardian view
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/10/the-guardian-view-on-israels-far-right-occupation-of-palestinian-territory-feeds-its-extremism">on
Israel's far right</a>: occupation of Palestinian territory feeds its extremism.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_May_2024_(A_US_report_on_its_Israel_relations)
title: A US report on its Israel relations
uri: A-US-report-on-its-Israel-relations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_May_2024_(A_US_report_on_its_Israel_relations)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/05/10/israel-human-rights-gaza-report/">The
State Department</a> lays out numerous suspected international humanitarian
violations by Israel in its war on Gaza, yet suggests no changes in policy or consequences.*
<p>
This is a peculiar sort of mental blindness, the blindness of he who will not see.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_May_2024_(Antisemitism_in_the_RWing_playbook)
title: "Antisemitism" in the RWing playbook
uri: Antisemitism-in-the-RWing-playbook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_May_2024_(Antisemitism_in_the_RWing_playbook)
content:
 
<p>
*Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism &mdash; but they're part of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/11/us-university-protests-antisemitism-free-speech">a
rightwing plan</a>.*
<p>
*US campus protests give [the fascist leader]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/11/us-campus-protests-donald-trump">a
target</a> for his violent rhetoric of vengeance.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(nuclear_site_license_uk)
title: Nuclear site license
uri: Nuclear-site-license
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(nuclear_site_license_uk)
content:
 
<p>
The UK has granted a license for a new 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/07/sizewell-c-suffolk-granted-nuclear-site-licence-edf">nuclear
power plant, Sizewell C.</a>
<p>
It probably will never be finished, because at some point the government will have a
crisis which will prevent it from continuing to pay for it.  But the unfinished reactor
will play a part in bringing the country to that disaster.
<p>
In the mean time, it will do plenty of harm to non-rich Britons.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(katie_britt_data_pregnant_people)
title: Pregnancy.gov
uri: Pregnancy-gov
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(katie_britt_data_pregnant_people)
content:
 
<p>
Right-wing Senator Britt proposed a bill to set up a honey trap to
lure pregnant Americans to giving their personal details to the US
government.  It would then send them
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/11/katie-britt-proposes-federal-database-to-collect-data-on-pregnant-people">right-wing-biased advice.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(astrazeneca_vaccine_withdrawn)
title: AstraZeneca vaccine withdrawn
uri: AstraZeneca-vaccine-withdrawn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(astrazeneca_vaccine_withdrawn)
content:
 
<p>
The AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has been withdrawn; it was effectively obsolete 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/08/astrazeneca-withdraws-covid-19-vaccine-worldwide-citing-surplus-of-newer-vaccines">since
it had not been updated,</a>
<p>
A very rare side effect killed one person who took the vaccine.  We should not forget that
it saved millions of lives in 2021-2022.
<p>
I saw an article that crowed about the end of this vaccine as a victory.  Over what, I
must ask?  Vaccination, it seems.  To an anti-vaxxer, one death from being vaccinated
counts more than hundreds of thousands of likely deaths that vaccination prevented.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(starmer_criticism_tory)
title: Sir Keir Starmer
uri: Sir-Keir-Starmer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(starmer_criticism_tory)
content:
 
<p>
Starmer has been surprised by the strength of criticism from within the Labour Party for
allowing a right-wing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/12/urgent-memo-to-sir-keir-starmer-there-are-some-offers-which-should-be-refused">Tory
to join the Labour ranks.</a>
<p>
Some of them still remember the moral crusade that Labour used to be.
<p>
She condemned firemen for going on strike.  Unions reminded Starmer that that contradicts
a Labour Party commitment to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/12/natalie-elphicke-anti-strike-stance-incompatible-with-labour-tuc-boss">restore
the right to strike</a>
<p>
If the government considers some public employees so essential that they must not go on
strike, the right way to avoid that is by paying the workers better without waiting for a
strike.  Rather than singling them out, it could pay all working people better.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(gaza_campus_sit_ins)
title: Righteous fury
uri: Righteous-fury
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(gaza_campus_sit_ins)
content:
 
<p>
*Righteous fury over Gaza must allow empathy for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/12/gaza-campus-sit-ins-fearful-jewish-students">fearful
 Jewish students.*</a>
<p>
Jewish students ought to be able to feel safe (and be safe) on campus.  Likewise, students
rallying to end an avoidable deadly war ought to be able to feel safe (and be safe) on campus.
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_May_2024_(Arbitrary_repression,_Columbia_Uni.,_NY)">Safe,
especially, from uniformed thugs.</a>
<p>
We can do the right thing for both groups at once, if we think about it.  Many of the Gaza
protest rallies in the US are thinking about that.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(faith_groups_secular_britain)
title: Faith groups
uri: Faith-groups
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(faith_groups_secular_britain)
content:
 
<p>
*Faith groups want more say in secular Britain. Labour 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/12/faith-groups-schools-secular-britain">should
tell them to go to hell.*</a>
<p>
The principle of religious freedom says that that is the right way to treat any group of
citizens' rituals: regardless of details, they have no right on push those on other
people.  Now, how to convince Starmer Labour to have principles other than "We must win"?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(capitalism_global_hunt_profits)
title: Global hunt for profits
uri: Global-hunt-for-profits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(capitalism_global_hunt_profits)
content:
 
<p>
*National sovereignty is little defense against the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/12/p-and-o-workers-global-capitalism">global
hunt for profits</a>
<p>
Capitalism seems to enable companies to see staff as expendable units, not humans [or people].*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(us_sanctions_west_bank_settlements)
title: West Bank settlements
uri: West-Bank-settlements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(us_sanctions_west_bank_settlements)
content:
 
<p>
Expanding US financial sanctions on certain named Israeli participants in
occupation violence could 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/12/could-new-us-sanctions-threaten-future-of-west-bank-settlements">eventually
cause big difficulties</a>
<p>
for continued 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#30_January_2016_(Ban_Ki-moon_condemns_Israeli_colonization)">colonization
of Palestine.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(cops_property_destruction_immunity)
title: Property damage immunity
uri: Property-damage-immunity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(cops_property_destruction_immunity)
content:
 
<p>
US courts have given cops immunity for any destruction of property that they
<a href="https://reason.com/2024/05/10/a-swat-team-blew-up-this-innocent-couples-home-and-left-them-with-the-bill-was-that-constitutional/?utm_medium=reason_email&utm_source=new_at_reason&utm_campaign=reason_brand&utm_content=An%20American%20Gangster%20at%20100:%20J.%20Edgar%20Hoover">cause
in the course of their activity.</a>
<p>
I agree that the government should compensate those whose property government agents
destroy except pursuant to a court order to do so.
<p>
As I see it, this conclusion does not require calling the damage "taking of property."
It's enough that it is damage.  If you or I destroyed a house, even if it were in the
course of some activity that was not wrong in itself, you or I would be liable.
So should the city.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(robert_reich_student_protests)
title: Student demonstrators
uri: Student-demonstrators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(robert_reich_student_protests)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich says that his conversations with US student protesters
showed him that their protests are meant as a rebuke to 
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/student-demonstrators-and-bidens">Israel's
deadly violence in Gaza.</a>  He reports that Biden said he has cut off supply of
artillery shells for Israel to use in attacking Rafah, and credits this as an achievement
for the protesters.
<p>
His article does not report the fine print of Biden's decision.  Israel surely has lots of
artillery shells already.  Is this decision going to actually hamper Israel's current attack?
<p>
Even if it doesn't do that, it must help convince some of the Israeli government that
Israel cannot continue down this path.  Maybe that will suffice to change the government
and end the bombardment and siege of Gaza.
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(gaza_israeli_forces_hamas_militants)
title: Fierce battles in Gaza
uri: Fierce-battles-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(gaza_israeli_forces_hamas_militants)
content:
 
<p>
Israel is fighting resurgent 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/12/fierce-battles-in-gaza-as-israeli-forces-attack-hamas-militants">HAMAS in northern Gaza again.</a>
<p>
As I've noted many times, it is impossible to defeat an underground
guerrilla movement that has the popular support to recruit new members.
HAMAS has that support.
<p>
Israel should recognize this and end the useless and deadly attempt to
do the impossible.  HAMAS is an evil group of terrorists, but there is
no use in futile efforts to eradicate it, and the effort is no excuse
for killing thousands of civilians.
<p>
Israel has also announced plans to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/11/leaflet-families-rafah-israel-assault-gaza-palestinians-biden">attack central Rafah.</a>
<p>
The "tens of thousands" reported fleeing sound like a small fraction
of the people who have fled to Rafah.  It seems that many must have
decided not to leave,
<p>
I can see various reasons a Palestinian might conclude that per chances of survival are
not much better there than in Rafah itself.  So I think only a fraction will go there.  A
substantial fraction will stay in Rafah, where Israel has invented an excuse to define
their lives as forfeit.
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(giorgia_melonis_politics)
title: Illiberal democracy
uri: Illiberal-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(giorgia_melonis_politics)
content:
 
<p>
Reporters Without Borders accuses Italy's government of repressing 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/12/the-guardian-view-on-giorgia-melonis-italy-the-politics-of-illiberal-democracy">journalists
who criticize the government.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(bird_flu_testing)
title: Bird flu spread
uri: Bird-flu-spread
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(bird_flu_testing)
content:
 
<p>
*H5N1 has been found in commercially available milk – but gaps in
testing of cattle and humans are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/12/bird-flu-spread-testing-lacking-cattle-humans">hampering
effort to stop virus</a>.*
<p>
It is crucial for public health to find out how many of the people working with infected
cattle are catching the virus from them.  Without that, we don't know whether one human
can catch it from another.  We need a law authorizing public health authorities to test
cows and dairy workers for this virus.
<p>
The article does not say much about what we might do to slow the
spread, if we find it is happening.  I'm in favor of compensating
farmers for cattle that have to be slaughtered, if that's the solution,
but is it?

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Global mimimum tax on billionaires
uri: Urgent-Global-mimimum-tax-on-billionaires
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(Urgent:_Global_mimimum_tax_on_billionaires)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_May_2024_(Urgent:_Global_mimimum_tax_on_billionaires)

content:
                                                                              
<p>                                                                                              
US citizens: call on Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to endorse a                                
global minimum tax on billionaire wealth                                                         
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-us-treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-to-endorse-a-gl\
obal-minimum-tax-on-billionaire-wealth-ahead-of-the-g20-summit?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-pat\
riotic-millionaires&source=group-patriotic-millionaires">ahead                                   
of the G20 summit</a>.                                                                           

<p>
 


title: Truth Social attacks on US legal system
uri: Truth-Social-attacks-on-US-legal-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_May_2024_(Truth_Social_attacks_on_US_legal_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_May_2024_(Truth_Social_attacks_on_US_legal_system)

content:
 
<p>
*[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a>]’s scattershot attacks on justice system are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/trump-trial-justice-system-violence">causing real damage</a>.*

<p>                                                                                              
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_May_2024_(Antimicrobial_technology_stagnant)
title: Antimicrobial technology stagnant
uri: Antimicrobial-technology-stagnant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_May_2024_(Antimicrobial_technology_stagnant)
content:
 
<p>
A review of the danger of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/13/what-is-antimicrobial-resistance-and-how-big-a-problem-is-it-antibiotics">antibiotic
resistance</a>.
<p>
I've posted over the years about the need to stop farmers from giving
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2005-jul-oct.html#09 October 2005
(Drug-resistant E Coli)">antibiotics to entire herds</a> in bulk.  We must restrict
them to giving antibiotics specifically to animals that are sick.
<p>
As for the lack of new antibiotics, we should take this entirely out of the hands of
drug companies and create an international organization for the job.  We should give
it funds to develop last-ditch antibiotics, and to make doses for the whole world
&mdash; prohibit the use of those antibiotics except in animals that are entitled to
human rights.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Julian Assange activism, week of May 13
uri: Urgent-Julian-Assange-activism-week-of-May-13
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(Urgent:_Julian_Assange_activism,_week_of_May_13)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(Urgent:_Julian_Assange_activism,_week_of_May_13)

content:
 
<p>
This is a <a href="/index.html#assange">message about Julian
Assange</a>, from Susan McLucas and Paula Iasella.
<p>
“Julian is just one decision away from extradition” -- Stella Assange
<p>
On May 20th two UK High Court judges will rule on Assange’s appeal
hearing after considering the U.S. assurances submitted mid-April.
<p>
We have sent 5,000 postcards, many personal and handwritten, to 100
senators, President Joe Biden, AG Merrick Garland and CIA director, William Burns.
Now is the time to amplify those messages.
<p>
In the senate focus on these 5 representatives: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14),
Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Jim Jordan (OH-4), Andy Biggs (AZ-5), and Mark Pocan (WI-2).
Plus your own rep: 202-224-3121. They all can be written at US House of Reps,
Washington, DC 20515.  The Senate has so far done nothing to help Assange.
<p>
In the House push members
<a href="https://assangedefense.org/press-release/call-congress-support-h-res-934/">to
cosponsor H.Res.934</a>.  Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, supportive of
dropping the charges against Assange, has yet to add her name to this important
bi-partisan legislation.
<p>
Please reach out to President Biden to encourage him to follow through on what he
said on April 10 that he is "considering" dropping the charges on Julian Assange.
Fill out the form at WhiteHouse.gov/contact.  Call him (only Tues-Thur 11 to 3) at
(202) 456-1111 or write him at The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Wash DC
20500.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(Intense_warfare_too_near_Kharkiv,_UKR)
title: Intense warfare too near Kharkiv, UKR
uri: Intense-warfare-too-near-Kharkiv-UKR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(Intense_warfare_too_near_Kharkiv,_UKR)
content:
 
<p>
*Ukraine facing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/12/ukraine-facing-difficult-situation-kharkiv-military-chief-says">‘difficult’
situation</a> in Kharkiv region, military chief says.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(Deportation_round-ups_begin,_UK)
title: Deportation round-ups begin, UK
uri: Deportation-round-ups-begin-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(Deportation_round-ups_begin,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Asylum seekers in Britain are asking themselves in terror, "Must I run now before they
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/04/lots-of-fear-how-the-rwanda-deportation-crackdown-led-to-panic-and-protests">grab
me for Rwanda</a>?"
<p>
Except that a large fraction get little information and don't even know about the
danger they may be put in deportation prison to be sent later to Rwanda.

<p>
 


title: Global journalism, reporter statistics
uri: Global-journalism-reporter-statistics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(Global_reporting,_journalism_statistics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(Global_reporting,_journalism_statistics)

content:
 
<p>
*In the past year, in virtually every region, journalists and independent
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/03/attacks-on-press-freedom-around-the-world-are-intensifying-index-reveals">media
outlets faced increasing repression</a>, according to RSF.*
<p>
This includes Gaza, where
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-nov-feb.html#23_December_2023_(Targeting_journalists)">Israeli
forces</a> have repeatedly killed reporters.
<p>
It also includes the US, where uniformed
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> have arrested
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/ucla-protester-attack-campus-safety">reporters
covering</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/24/university-of-texas-austin-campus-protest">rallies against</a>
the killing of civilians there.
<!-- See 9_May_2024_(Student-protester_wounds,_NY,_CA) for further info. -->
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(GMO_pesticide_alert,_Bayer_at_the_EPA)
title: GMO pesticide alert, Bayer at the EPA
uri: GMO-pesticide-alert-Bayer-at-the-EPA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(GMO_pesticide_alert,_Bayer_at_the_EPA)
content:
 
<p>
*Bayer Seeks Reapproval of Pesticide That Federal Courts Have Twice Banned
for Causing
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/bayer-seeks-reapproval-of-pesticide-that-federal-courts-have-twice-banned-for-causing-widespread-damage-to-crops-and-communities">Widespread
Damage</a> to Crops and Communities.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_((Satire)_Studing_math_amidst_a_riot)
title: (Satire) Studying math amid a riot
uri: (Satire)-Studying-math-amid-a-riot
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_((Satire)_Studing_math_amidst_a_riot)
content:
 
<p>
(satire)
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/bored-riot-cops-break-up-calculus-class-1851454763">*Bored
Riot Cops</a> Break Up Calculus Class.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(Labour_party_leanings_on_labor_rights)
title: Labour party leanings on labor rights
uri: Labour-party-leanings-on-labor-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(Labour_party_leanings_on_labor_rights)
content:
 
<p>
Rumor said that Starmer
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/labour-scaling-back-workers-rights-plan-would-be-disastrous-tcu-president">plans
to yield to business</a> by weakening the the "Labour" Party's commitment to improve
workers' rights and pay.
<p>
Unions threatened to remove their support, and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/08/labour-vows-to-ban-fire-and-rehire-after-war-of-words-with-unions">made
Starmer firm up</a> at least one pledge.

<p>
 


title: State examiner monitoring bathrooms, UT
uri: State-examiner-monitoring-bathrooms-UT
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(State_examiner_monitoring_bathrooms,_UT)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(State_examiner_monitoring_bathrooms,_UT)

content:
 
<p>
Utah made it a crime to use the "wrong" bathroom in schools and government buildings,
and set up a way to report violations. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/08/utah-tip-line-false-trans-bathroom-law-violations">Defenders
of trans rights</a> have filed 10,000 bogus reports so that any serious reports will
be impossible to find among all those.

<p>
 


title: Statutory climate advisors rebuffed, UK
uri: Statutory-climate-advisors-rebuffed-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(Statutory_climate_advisors_rebuffed,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_May_2024_(Statutory_climate_advisors_rebuffed,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
It looks like the UK will weaken is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/11/uk-carbon-targets-carryover-budget-climate-change-committee">greenhouse
gas targets</a> to "make them easier to meet."
<p>
That is absurd &mdash; like reducing the treatment for cancer to make it easier to
take.  That's what you get in a hospice.  Is this hospice care for Planet Earth?







<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Wildfires_near_tar_sands,_CAN)
title: Wildfires near tar sands, CAN
uri: Wildfires-near-tar-sands-CAN
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Wildfires_near_tar_sands,_CAN)
content:
 
<p>
Northern Canada is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/canada-wildfires-evacuation-notice">again
beset by dangerous wildfires</a>, including near Ft McMurray, a main center of tar
sand oil extraction.
<p>
There is poetic justice in greenhouse-fueled wildfires burning Ft McMurray.  I hope
the people there reflect on what they have done to cause wildfires like these.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Canada_wildfires)
title: Canada wildfires
uri: Canada-wildfires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Canada_wildfires)
content:
 
<p>
Wildfires in Canada
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/internet-access-rural-canada-wildfires">damaged
fiber optic cables</a> and cut off communication with large areas.
Without land lines and cash, everyone was screwed.
<p>
This is not one of my reasons for having cash on hand and always paying cash &mdash;
I don't think fire damage to Boston's underground cables is likely.  But in many
places it is another good reason to <em>make a habit of using cash</em>.  You can
make sure that the stores you buy from are accustomed to cash payments and realize
that they will lose business if they don't let you pay that way.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Famine_plus_blocked_food_aid,_Gaza)
title: Famine plus blocked food aid, Gaza
uri: Famine-plus-blocked-food-aid-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Famine_plus_blocked_food_aid,_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/un-says-it-has-no-more-food-or-tents-for-nearly-2m-people-in-gaza">UNWRA
has run out of food</a> in southern 2/3 of Gaza, so it can't distribute any more.
Israel is not letting in any more food, having captured and closed the Rafah crossing.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Egypt's_new_intent_in_the_Gaza_crisis)
title: Egypt's new intent in the Gaza crisis
uri: Egypt-s-new-intent-in-the-Gaza-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Egypt's_new_intent_in_the_Gaza_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
Israel closed the Rafah aid crossing from Egypt into Gaza, and is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/israel-egypt-diplomatic-row-rafah-border-crossing-gaza">claiming
that Egypt closed it</a>.  It says that reopening it is up to Egypt.  But this is not
true and Egypt vociferously denies it.
<p>
Who is this supposed to fool?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Tanks_enter_Rafah,_Gaza)
title: Tanks enter Rafah, Gaza
uri: Tanks-enter-Rafah-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Tanks_enter_Rafah,_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
Israeli tanks have entered Rafah's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/israeli-tanks-residential-areas-idf-push-further-rafah">residential
zones</a>.  This could result in killing thousands soon enough.
<p>
A UN vehicle was attacked, with casualties.  I wish we could identify who attacked it.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Post-war_Gaza_plan_public_drama,_ISR)
title: Post-war Gaza-plan public-drama, ISR
uri: Post-war-Gaza-plan-public-drama-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Post-war_Gaza_plan_public_drama,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
A
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/israel-war-cabinet-split-looms-as-defence-minister-demands-plan-for-post-war-gaza">split
in Israel's cabinet</a> about what to aim for after this war ends could lead to a shift of some sort.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Cease-fire-deal_text_that_HAMAS_OK'd)
title: Cease-fire-deal text that HAMAS OKed
uri: Cease-fire-deal-text-that-HAMAS-OKed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Cease-fire-deal_text_that_HAMAS_OK'd)
content:
 
<p>
Here is
<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/6/text-of-the-ceasefire-proposal-approved-by-hamas">the cease-fire deal</a>
that HAMAS agreed to, two weeks ago.  It includes releasing all the hostages.  Israel did not accept it.

<p>
 


title: RWing extremists attack aid convoy, ISR
uri: RWing-extremists-attack-aid-convoy-ISR
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(RWing_extremists_attack_aid_convoy,_ISR)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(RWing_extremists_attack_aid_convoy,_ISR)

content:
 
<p>
Fanatics of the Israeli violent "settler" movement
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/total-outrage-white-house-condemns-israeli-settlers-attack-on-gaza-aid-convoy">attacked
an aid convoy</a>, which was traveling from Jordan to Gaza; its route passed through
occupied Palestinian territory and then Israel.
<p>
The attack took place at a checkpoint where it was going to cross from Palestinian
territory into Israel.  These checkpoints are run by Israeli forces, who evidently
chose not to defend the convoy from the fanatics.  Such noninterference with mob
violence against Arabs is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_March_2023_(US_Jewish_organizations_condemn_pogrom_carried_out_by_fanatical_Israeli_racists)">quite usual</a>
for them.
<p>
Some Israelis openly demand to starve Gaza until HAMAS frees all the hostages.  I
don't think that has any chance of success; HAMAS will not yield so that Israel will
forbear to kill thousands of Palestinian hostages.  But if Israel wants to be judged
as morally superior to HAMAS, it <em>must</em> save them.

<p>
 


title: New gas-fields for home and export, AUS
uri: New-gas-fields-for-home-and-export-AUS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(New_gas-fields_for_homes_and_export,_AUS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(New_gas-fields_for_homes_and_export,_AUS)

content:
 
<p>
Australia's government has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/09/labors-strategy-is-to-reduce-emissions-from-gas-but-not-if-that-means-doing-anything-to-cut-its-use">surrendered to fossil gas</a>.
<p>
The previous right-wing government was embarrassingly subservient, and it looked like
the Labor government would be better.  But no, it's the same track that leads to gigadeaths.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Green_revolution_plan_questioned,_AUS)
title: "Green revolution" plan questioned, AUS
uri: Green-revolution-plan-questioned-AUS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Green_revolution_plan_questioned,_AUS)
content:
 
<p>
Australia plans to invest $23bn in a future
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/14/australia-federal-budget-2024-future-made-in-australia-investments-renewables-net-zero-national-interest-framework-small-business-tax-solar-hydrogen-education">industrial policy</a>.
<p>
I am not one of those who claims that it is foolish to have an industrial policy, but
there is always the risk that is used to hide a giveaway to big business.  This one
includes an investment in hydrogen production, and it sounds like renewable
production is only the second step.
<p>
What is the first step of
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production">hydrogen production</a>?
Is it production from fossil fuels?  That's the way that already works, but investing
in boosting the amount of that is only going to make the climate crisis worse.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Atlanta_police_training_in_Israel,_GA)
title: Atlanta police training in Israel, GA
uri: Atlanta-police-training-in-Israel-GA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Atlanta_police_training_in_Israel,_GA)
content:
 
<p>
Students at Emery University in Atlanta have linked the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/13/cop-city-emory-atlanta-israel">violent
repression of rallies</a> for the Palestinians of Gaza with
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#30_August_2023_(Cop_City_protesters_targeted)">violent
repression of protests</a> against Cop City.
<p>
I think the relationship between the bombardment and siege of Gaza and Cop City is
rather tenuous, but the two instances of repression have a considerable relationship
as described by the article linked above.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Oil_execs_quid_pro_quo_with_Exploiter)
title: Oil execs quid pro quo with Exploiter
uri: Oil-execs-quid-pro-quo-with-Exploiter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Oil_execs_quid_pro_quo_with_Exploiter)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/14/trump-oil-executives-democrat-investigation">Congress
is investigating</a> <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> for reportedly asking executives for bribes to
abolish Biden's environmental rules.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Time_to_vote_in_a_polarized_India)
title: Time to vote in a polarized India
uri: Time-to-vote-in-a-polarized-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Time_to_vote_in_a_polarized_India)
content:
 
<p>
Modi's party is accused of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/bjp-accused-intimidation-india-elections-gujarat">bullying opposition candidates</a> to drop out of the race.
<p>
Modi has not gone as far to making democracy an empty shell
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-sep-dec.html#07 December 2007 (Rigged in many ways)">as
Putin went 17 years ago</a>,  but it's basically the same story.  India is no democracy and we should
not treat it as one.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Hunger-strike_against_Thai-royalty)
title: Hunger-strike against Thai-royalty
uri: Hunger-strike-against-Thai-royalty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Hunger-strike_against_Thai-royalty)
content:
 
<p>
*Political activist [Netiporn Sanae-sangkhom], held in Thai jail,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/political-activist-held-in-thai-jail-dies-after-spending-65-days-on-hunger-strike">dies
after 65 days</a> on hunger strike.*
<p>
She faced prosecution for allegedly insulting the king.  It seems that the Thai
monarchy's definition of "insulting the king" is far broader than the normal
definition of "insult" in English.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Labour_agreement_with_Unions,_UK)
title: Labour agreement with Unions, UK
uri: Labour-agreement-with-Unions-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Labour_agreement_with_Unions,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
*Labour and unions reach agreement on
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/14/labour-and-unions-reach-agreement-on-workers-rights-proposals">workers’
rights proposals</a>.  Labour commits to deal agreed last year, following weeks of tension.*

<p>
 


title: Jeremy Corbyn's seat of Islington North
uri: Jeremy-Corbyn-s-seat-of-Islington-North
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Jeremy_Corbyn's_seat_of_Islington_North)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Jeremy_Corbyn's_seat_of_Islington_North)

content:
 
<p>
Starmer has specifically excluded local Labour members from
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/15/labour-begins-candidate-selection-for-jeremy-corbyns-islington-north-seat">choosing
Labour's candidate in the district</a> of Jeremy Corbyn.
<p>
Corbyn was kicked out of the Labour Party by
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#7_July_2019_(Jeremy_Corbyn)">weaponizing accusations</a>
of antisemitism, much as protesters for peace in Gaza are now being.
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#8_August_2018_(Criticism_of_Israel)">Alleged antisemitism</a>
by employees of the Labour Party was blamed on him.

<p>
 


title: Tory MPs moving to Labour: ongoing, UK
uri: Tory-MPs-moving-to-Labour-ongoing-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Tory_MPs_moving_to_Labour:_ongoing,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Tory_MPs_moving_to_Labour:_ongoing,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
The defection of a right-wing Tory to the Labour Party demonstrates
that Starmer views the party as a mere
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/12/natalie-elphicke-defection-labour-kier-starmer-dover-mp">faction,
united only by</a> the idea that by working together they can win power.

<p>
 


title: National security from climate chaos, UK
uri: National-security-from-climate-chaos-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(National_security_from_climate_chaos,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(National_security_from_climate_chaos,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/14/uk-is-failing-to-put-climate-crisis-at-centre-of-national-security-measures-mps-told">UK
is failing</a> to put climate crisis at centre of national security measures, MPs told.*
<p>
I'm sure many governments are being lobbied to get this wrong ;-{.

<p>
 


title: London weakening on money laundering, UK
uri: London-weakening-on-money-laundering-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(London_weakening_on_money_laundering,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(London_weakening_on_money_laundering,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
40% of the world's laundered money is estimated to flow through the UK and some
former colonies.  The UK has failed to insist that those
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/nearly-40-of-dirty-money-is-laundered-in-london-and-uk-crown-dependenies">former
colonies reveal the true owners</a> of the dummy corporations they set up, often for money laundering.
<p>
If the UK cuts them off entirely, they could continue supporting
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-nov-feb.html#8_February_2019_(Real_corporation_owners)">business deceit</a>
as
they do now, but without being able to relate to other countries
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_May_2018_(Secret_company_owners)">through
the UK</a>, they might find their scheme ineffective.

<p>
 


title: Whistleblower for Covid-19 semi-released
uri: Whistleblower-for-Covid-19-semi-released
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Whistleblower_for_Covid-19_semi-released)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Whistleblower_for_Covid-19_semi-released)

content:
 
<p>
Zhang Zhan, who reported on the early days of Covid-19 in China, was jailed for doing
so.  Now she has supposedly been released, but it seems she is being
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/zhang-zhan-chinese-citizen-journalist-supposed-jail-release">held
incommunicado</a> outside of formal prison.
<p>
This is common in China.  The government's statements are meant to tell you what to
think, not to describe reality.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Apple_store_strike_authorized,_MD)
title: Apple store strike authorized, MD
uri: Apple-store-strike-authorized-MD
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Apple_store_strike_authorized,_MD)
content:
 
<p>
Workers at the first
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/15/apple-union-workers-strike-vote-bargaining-delay">unionized Apple store</a>
have voted to strike.
<p>
I wish them well as individuals, but the products they sell are so unjust that wish
those jobs would disappear instead of being better paid.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Legislator_bribed_by_AT%26amp;T,_IL)
title: Legislator bribed by AT&amp;T, IL
uri: Legislator-bribed-by-AT-T-IL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Legislator_bribed_by_AT%26amp;T,_IL)
content:
 
<p>
An AT&amp;T executive is charged with bribing an Illinois legislator to get
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/att-paid-bribes-to-get-two-major-pieces-of-legislation-passed-us-govt-says/">two
major pieces of legislation</a> passed.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Filmmaker_flees,_Iran)
title: Filmmaker flees, Iran
uri: Filmmaker-flees-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_May_2024_(Filmmaker_flees,_Iran)
content:
 
<p>
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/iranian-film-director-mohammad-rasoulof-flees-iran-to-avoid-prison">fled
to Europe</a> to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#11_May_2024_(Filmmaker's_incarcerations,_Iran)">escape persecution</a>
for his films.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(GDP_growth_as_a_phase)
title: GDP growth as a phase
uri: GDP-growth-as-a-phase
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(GDP_growth_as_a_phase)
content:
 
<p>
Looking for a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/13/what-does-progress-look-like-on-a-planet-at-its-limit">model
of progress</a> that does not depend on unending economic growth.

<p>
 


title: Water infrastructure bills and dues, US
uri: Water-infrastructure-bills-and-dues-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(Water_infrastructure_bills_and_dues,_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(Water_infrastructure_bills_and_dues,_US)

content:
 
<p>
The US needs to spend a trillion dollars over the next 20 years in order to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/epa-1-3-trillion-needed-for-nations-water-infrastructure">upgrade
and repair</a> water infrastructure.
<p>
That is presuming we do what is needed to curb <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.  If we don't do that,
we are on the path to a world of disasters &mdash; so what difference does one disaster more or less make?

<p>
 


title: Tropical heating, glaciers in Venezuela
uri: Tropical-heating-glaciers-in-Venezuela
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(Tropical_heating,_glaciers_in_Venezuela)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(Tropical_heating,_glaciers_in_Venezuela)

content:
 
<p>
*[It seems that] Venezuela is the first country to have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/venezuela-loses-its-last-glacier-as-it-shrinks-down-to-an-ice-field">lost
all its glaciers</a> in modern times.*
<p>
Venezuela bears a fraction of the responsibility for this event through its export of
oil.  But it is just a small fraction.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(Global_power_sector_emmissions_peaked)
title: Global power sector emissions peaked
uri: Global-power-sector-emissions-peaked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(Global_power_sector_emmissions_peaked)
content:
 
<p>
Renewable generation provided 30% of the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/renewable-energy-passes-30-of-worlds-electricity-supply">world's
electricity in 2023</a>.  This is expected to continue growing rapidly.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(Demographics_around_abortion_bans)
title: Demographics around abortion bans
uri: Demographics-around-abortion-bans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(Demographics_around_abortion_bans)
content:
 
<p>
Various restrictions imposed on abortion by some US states correlated
with higher
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/abortion-restrictions-domestic-violence-homicide">rates
of domestic homicide</a>.
<p>
It is too early to determine how the recent bans on abortion have affected this
correlation, but one must suspect that bans correlate with even higher increases.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(US_Mail_system_as_degradable)
title: US Mail system as degradable
uri: US-Mail-system-as-degradable
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(US_Mail_system_as_degradable)
content:
 
<p>
Laying out
<a href="https://substack.perfectunion.us/p/rural-americans-are-losing-their">DeJoy's
plans</a> to make US mail less reliable and frequently but unpredictably slower.
<p>
The anticipated slowdowns will interfere with postal voting.  Many ballots will
arrive late due to USPS delays and then will not be counted.

<p>
 


title: Corporate treaties fueling global crises
uri: Corporate-treaties-fueling-global-crises
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(Corporate_treaties_fueling_global_crises)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(Corporate_treaties_fueling_global_crises)

content:
 
<p>
Governments are noticing the terrible danger that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/14/fossil-fuel-investment-treaties-lobbying-climate-mary-robinson-ban-ki-moon-ect">business-supremacy
treaties</a> pose to prospects of reducing fossil fuel use.
<p>
Given the millions of people that those companies' use of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#business-supremacy">business-supremacy treaties</a>
is likely to kill, in my view war is justified to defeat them.  However, it is not
obvious to me what strategy could be successful.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(April_heat_wave_in_Asia)
title: April heat wave in Asia
uri: April-heat-wave-in-Asia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(April_heat_wave_in_Asia)
content:
 
<p>
A deadly heat wave across Asia in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/14/impossible-heatwave-philippines-april-scientists">April
was impossible</a> before humans caused <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.  Now we can expect one like it every few years.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(Jet_fuel_alternatives)
title: Cropland for jet fuel
uri: Cropland-for-jet-fuel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_May_2024_(Jet_fuel_alternatives)
content:
 
<p>
Alternative jet fuel is not feasible in the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/14/sustainable-jet-fuel-report">time
frame necessary</a> to avert climate disaster.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_((satire)_trump_cohen_michael)
title: (Satire) Michael Cohen
uri: (Satire)-Michael-Cohen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_((satire)_trump_cohen_michael)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *[The ganglord] reflexively asks Michael Cohen to 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/trump-reflexively-asks-michael-cohen-to-silence-michael-1851473236">silence
Michael Cohen.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(uber_profits_pays_peanuts)
title: Uber's Profit Margins
uri: Uber-s-Profit-Margins
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(uber_profits_pays_peanuts)
content:
 
<p>
*As Uber's Profit Margins Grow, 
<a href="https://substack.perfectunion.us/">Workers Make Less and Less.*</a>
<p>
This is a valid social reason to boycott Guber &mdash; because
it pays workers peanuts.  But that company's operations
directly mistreat its customers,
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/uber.html"> as well as its drivers.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(israel_strikes_aid_groups)
title: Eight Israeli strikes
uri: Eight-Israeli-strikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(israel_strikes_aid_groups)
content:
 
<p>
Human Rights Watch reports at least eight Israeli airstrikes on Gaza
aid groups since October, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/israel-strikes-aid-groups-gaza-october-human-rights-watch">with no warnings given.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(corporate_rent_wallstreet_lobby)
title: Tenant laws and corporations
uri: Tenant-laws-and-corporations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(corporate_rent_wallstreet_lobby)
content:
 
<p>
Now that corporations have bought many single-family homes, they feel
free to maintain them badly, because if tenants withhold rent to
demand their rights, 
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/thanks-to-wall-street-there-goes-the-neighborhood/">the corporation evicts them.</a>
<p>
These corporations lobby hard against laws
to protect tenants from being cheated. I think Republican-controlled states
may not have codified rent strikes.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(jewish_students_campus_protest)
title: US campus protests
uri: US-campus-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(jewish_students_campus_protest)
content:
 
<p>
Several Jewish students, at least fairly sympathetic to the
Palestinian cause, state praise and criticism for views 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/15/campus-protest-jewish-student">they
encountered in recent encampments.</a>
<p>
The Jewish population of Israel did not come from Europe, so cannot
even 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/15/israelis-go-back-to-europe-slogan">theoretically go "back" there.</a>
<p>
I support an independent state of Palestine, but abolishing Israel would be
worse (because bigger) than abolishing Gaza.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(pride_month_terrorism_fbi)
title: Pride month warning
uri: Pride-month-warning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(pride_month_terrorism_fbi)
content:
 
<p>
*FBI warns [gay] Pride month celebrations could be 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/pride-month-terrorism-fbi">targeted by
terrorists.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(europe_power_fear)
title: Europe power fear
uri: Europe-power-fear
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(europe_power_fear)
content:
 
<p>
*As Europe's power shrinks, its fear is growing &mdash; and the result is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/14/europe-power-fear-ukraine-russia-migrants-gaza">huge
mistakes.*</a>
<p>
I have strongly criticized the EU for giving power to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#20_September_2015_(Greek_puppet_government)">banksters instead of
to the people.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(german_court_nazi_phrase)
title: Court fines politician
uri: Court-fines-politician
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(german_court_nazi_phrase)
content:
 
<p>
An right-wing-extremist German candidate has been convicted of using a
slogan used by Nazi 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/german-court-fines-afd-bjorn-hocke-using-banned-nazi-phrase">paramilitaries in the 1930s.</a>
<p>
I don't think that was a accident.  Right-wing extremists are very
clever about their dog whistles.  Apparently that candidate chose
to invoke the Nazi for per own success.
<p>
Which is worse: Nazis successfully recruiting with hate, or censorship
of Nazi views?  For me, either one is likely to destroy democracy.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(eric_adams_migrant_lifeguards)
title: Lifeguard shortage
uri: Lifeguard-shortage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(eric_adams_migrant_lifeguards)
content:
 
<p>
Night-Mayor Adams argued for allowing unauthorized immigrants to work
in the US by saying that they could fill 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/eric-adams-migrant-lifeguards">New York City's lifeguard
shortage.</a>
<p>
I see no racism in that statement.  (By the way, Adams is black; for
most political issues that makes no difference, but in regard to
whether his statements express racism it might be pertinent.)
<p>
It is true that only a small fraction of unauthorized immigrants reach
the US by swimming, or by water at all.  His words may have suggested
otherwise; if so, that was inaccurate.  But perhaps he did not intend
that implication.  His words say that many of them say they can swim.
<p>
Anyway, if he was serious rather than sarcastic about the political
suggestion of allowing them to work, I think we can pardon that
inaccurate possible point.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(robert_reich_loathsomeness)
title: Loathsomeness of Trump
uri: Loathsomeness-of-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(robert_reich_loathsomeness)
content:
 
<p>
The corrupter's criminal trial is a tour through a world of pervasive
corruption and immorality &mdash; the world he 
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-loathsomeness-of-trump-world">imposes on those around him.</a>

<p>
 


title: Migratory birds
uri: Migratory-birds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(climate_disruption_migratory_bird_problems)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(climate_disruption_migratory_bird_problems)

content:
 
<p>
Global heating is making seasons unpredictable.  Some birds
starve because after migration the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/16/climate-disruption-to-uk-seasons-causes-problems-for-migratory-birds">things they would eat are not available;</a>
<p>
  in some years the food has not appeared, and in other years it has already
disappeared or changed form.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(global_heating_target)
title: Global heating target
uri: 2024-05-19-Global-heating-target
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(global_heating_target)
content:
 
<p>
The target of limiting global heating to no more than 1.5°C was
proposed as an ambitious plan. The evident failure to reach it does
not mean all is lost.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/15/1-5-degree-global-heating-target-climate-action">does
not mean all is lost.</a>
<p>
Not yet.

<p>
 


title: Aid convoy's IDF-escort self-sabotaged
uri: Aid-convoy-s-IDF-escort-self-sabotaged
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(IDF_escorting_aid_convoy:_self-sabotage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(IDF_escorting_aid_convoy:_self-sabotage)

content:
 
<p>
The aid convoy attacked by Israeli nationalist fanatics was escorted by Israeli soldiers.  They did nothing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/palestinian-lorry-drivers-israeli-settlers-attack-gaza-aid-convoy">to
stop the attack</a>.

<p>
 


title: States' officials battling over abortion
uri: States-officials-battling-over-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(States'_officials_battle_over_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(States'_officials_battle_over_abortion)

content:
 
<p>
*The Nationwide Right-Wing
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/05/16/abortion-reform-prosecutors-attack-right-wing-gop-legislatures/">Attack on Reform Prosecutors</a>
Is Now an Attack on Abortion Rights [as well].*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(Overzealous_utopianists_dangerous)
title: Overzealous utopianists dangerous
uri: Overzealous-utopianists-dangerous
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(Overzealous_utopianists_dangerous)
content:
 
<p>
The American Communist Party "attracted egalitarian idealists, and
it
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/16/american-communism-history">bred authoritarian zealots</a>."
<p>
Nowadays what
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#13_October_2023_(Sinister_threats_of_the_corrupter)">breeds
authoritarian zealots</a> is the right-wing MAGA movement.  I wonder if it is possible
to identify which common points are responsible for that result.
<p>
The author regrets American Communists' "willingness to subvert their own best
instincts in their devotion to a flawed and irrelevant historical model."  The
American right-wing today can be described with similar words &mdash; their model
includes laissez faire /
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#laissez-mourir">laissez mourir</a>,
balanced budgets, minimizing taxes on the rich, and scapegoating minorities and immigrants.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(A_US_authoritarian_legacy)
title: A US authoritarian legacy
uri: A-US-authoritarian-legacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_May_2024_(A_US_authoritarian_legacy)
content:
 
<p>
J Edgar Hoover spent his career building and running
<a href="https://reason.com/2024/05/10/an-american-gangster-at-100-j-edgar-hoovers-authoritarian-legacy">America's
repressive secret police</a>.
<p>
I love this quote from Justice Brandeis: "The greatest dangers to liberty lie in
insidious encroachments by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."  But
they are generally aided by people motivated simply by unscrupulous ambition &mdash;
people eager to create and use terrorism scares, antisemitism scares, or whatever it
may be, in order to gain power
<p>
This is why I condemn the digital systems that provide all the infrastructure for
Chinese-style total surveillance.  All the more-or-less free countries today are
threatened by this.  You can fight back by insisting on buying <em>only</em> with
cash, and by not carrying a portable phone.

<p>
 


title: Patient recovery
uri: Patient-recovery
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(hospital_surgical_teams_women_recovery)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(hospital_surgical_teams_women_recovery)

content:
 
<p>
*Hospital surgical teams that include more female doctors improve
patient outcomes, lower the risk of serious complications and could in
turn reduce healthcare costs, according to the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/hospital-surgical-teams-with-more-women-improve-patient-recovery-study-finds">world’s largest study
of its kind.*</a>

<p>
 


title: South China Sea
uri: 2024-05-19-South-China-Sea
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(south_china_sea_philippines_coast_guard)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(south_china_sea_philippines_coast_guard)

content:
 
<p>
The Philippines found a clever nonviolent way to respond to China's
naval provocations in the disputed sea between them, which 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/south-china-sea-philippines-coast-guard-flotilla-activists">China is
trying to seize.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(2024_class_of_gaza)
title: 2024 Class of Gaza
uri: 2024-Class-of-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(2024_class_of_gaza)
content:
 
<p>
*The 2024 Class of Gaza: The Students 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/the-2024-class-of-gaza-the-students-have-done-their-part">Have Done Their Part.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(OSHA_rules_being_blunted_on_worksites)
title: OSHA rules being blunted on worksites
uri: OSHA-rules-being-blunted-on-worksites
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(OSHA_rules_being_blunted_on_worksites)
content:
 
<p>
US employers are required to protect workers from falls, which can be done with
standard methods.  They are also required to report such incidents to workers'
compensation.  But often
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/23/construction-workers-safety-falls-unions">they
don't do either one</a>, and it is hard to make them.
<p>
The US legal system is generally inadequate for enforcing workers' rights of whatever
kind.  That includes union-related rights, the right to get paid one's wages, as well
as the right to proper safety measures.  If the US enforced workers' rights against
their employers the way it enforces the laws that mainly benefit the rich, American
workers would, practically speaking, have far more rights.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(New_political_article)
title: New political article
uri: 2024-05-20-New-political-article
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(New_political_article)
content:
 
<p>
There is a new political article:
<a href="https://stallman.org/#politics"><i>Fight Modern Slavery, but Leave Astronomy Alone</i></a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(Insurance_as_a_sham)
title: Insurance as a sham
uri: Insurance-as-a-sham
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(Insurance_as_a_sham)
content:
 
<p>
*[Life] insurance companies in Australia are fighting for access to
these test results.* The tests show
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/12/life-insurance-industry-customers-genetic-tests-ban">how
likely a person is to die</a> from some cancers.
<p>
It is obvious why insurance companies want these data: to charge more to people who
have the harmful gene variants.  The reason that practice is harmful is not so obvious
but it is important: life insurance is presumed as part of the state social safety
net.  If you have dependents, you need life insurance.
<p>
Life insurance was developed back in the day when states hardly had a social safety
net.  In a country with a good enough state system, life insurance becomes
unnecessary.  That is the real fix.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(Military_musicians'_bane)
title: A Mariupol soldier's POW story
uri: A-Mariupol-soldier-s-POW-story
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(Military_musicians'_bane)
content:
 
<p>
The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> torture Ukrainian prisoners of war, but they
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/12/ukrainian-saxophonist-putin-torture-mariupol-siege">especially
torture the musicians</a> of military bands.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(Oil_$7tn_bigger_since_Paris)
title: Oil $7tn bigger since Paris
uri: Oil-7tn-bigger-since-Paris
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(Oil_$7tn_bigger_since_Paris)
content:
 
<p>
*Banks have given almost $7tn to fossil fuel firms since Paris deal,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/13/banks-almost-7tn-fossil-fuel-firms-paris-deal-report">report reveals</a>.*
<p>
Almost all of those trillions has been invested in plunging headfirst
into making climate disaster worse.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(Zionist_as_a_slur)
title: Zionist as a slur
uri: Zionist-as-a-slur
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(Zionist_as_a_slur)
content:
 
<p>
The US left has largely come to define "Zionism" as the political philosophy of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/12/how-zionist-became-a-slur-on-the-us-left">the
apartheid system</a> that Israel applies to occupied Palestine.
<p>
The danger is that valid condemnation of Israel's actual policies and
behavior may lead to a sort of anti-Zionism, the opposite or reversal
of each aspect of Zionism.  This tends to transform the conflict into
one which admits of no resolution other than the destruction of one of
the two sides.  That would be a horrible mistake.
<p>
I support the existence of Israel, which has the obligation (like every country) to
respect human rights and democracy, <a href="/articles/benevolence.html">alongside a
state of Palestine</a> which would (like every country) have the same obligation.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(streaming_services_library)
title: Age of streaming services
uri: Age-of-streaming-services
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(streaming_services_library)
content:
 
<p>
It is sad to see how little respect people get whet they complain
after companies changed them for mere access to a remote copy of
something, and then put 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/14/my-whole-library-is-wiped-out-what-it-means-to-own-movies-and-tv-in-the-age-of-streaming-services">limits even on that access</a>.
<p>
The author of this article bends over backwards to excuse companies for doing
something that is inherently abusive.  He grants moral authority to the laws
companies have obtained so that they have power over people.  He presupposes that
companies deserve whatever power they can get governments to impose.
<p>
When you get a copy of anything that has been published, <Em>no one</Em> is entitled
to the power to control whether, when or how you can use it.  No one is entitled to
the power to make it disappear.
<a href="https://www.DefectiveByDesign.org">Digital
Restrictions Management</a> (DRM) is an injustice and ought to be a felony.
<p>
When people defy that through forbidden sharing, don't call that
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy">"piracy"</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(australian_man_phone_passcode)
title: Border force
uri: Border-force
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(australian_man_phone_passcode)
content:
 
<p>
Australian border thugs stretched the lax Australian law to demand the
passwords to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/14/australian-man-says-border-force-made-him-hand-over-phone-passcode-by-threatening-to-keep-device-indefinitely">unlock travelers' phones.</a>
That they do this arbitrarily, without court orders, is an offense
against the rule of law.  That they pretend it is "random", which
clearly it is not, is a lie that shames the entire Australian government.
<p>
Of course, Australia is not the only semi-free country that does this, and non-free
countries such as China do far worse.  That is no excuse for Australia.
<p>
It is amusing, though, to see the complaining passenger complain that
it is unthinkable to travel without a
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html">device that will snoop on him.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(johnny_mcentee_tiktok_video)
title: Ex-Trump aide
uri: Ex-Trump-aide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(johnny_mcentee_tiktok_video)
content:
 
<p>
A Maga Maggot joked about giving homeless people counterfeit money to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/13/johnny-mcentee-tiktok-video-fake-money">get
them arrested.</a>  "How broken must you be to do this and think it's funny?", someone commented.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(birth_trauma_scandal)
title: Birth trauma scandal
uri: Birth-trauma-scandal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(birth_trauma_scandal)
content:
 
<p>
In the UK before Tory budget cuts, medicine for pregnancy and birth
was adequate, except for some disprivileged groups.  Budget cuts have made it
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/13/the-birth-trauma-scandal-is-not-about-one-bad-apple-one-bad-culture-or-one-bad-area-its-about-the-mess-of-austerity">generally
horrible, leading to injuries.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(israel_public_opinion_netanyahu)
title: Israeli public opinion
uri: Israeli-public-opinion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_May_2024_(israel_public_opinion_netanyahu)
content:
 
<p>
*Israeli public opinion is shifting on the Gaza war &mdash; but this may
make 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/13/israel-public-opinion-benjamin-netanyahu-hostages-ceasefire-rafah">Netanyahu even more reckless</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(Putin_inciting_EU-migration_bomb,_UKR)
title: Putin inciting EU-immigration bombs, UKR
uri: Putin-inciting-EU-immigration-bombs-UKR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(Putin_inciting_EU-migration_bomb,_UKR)
content:
 
<p>
*Putin is seeking to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/putin-is-seeking-to-weaponise-threat-of-ukraine-mass-migration-says-estonian-pm">weaponize
threat of mass migration</a>, says Estonian PM.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(New_laws_ignoring_global_boiling,_FL)
title: New laws ignoring global boiling, FL
uri: New-laws-ignoring-global-boiling-FL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(New_laws_ignoring_global_boiling,_FL)
content:
 
<p>
Governor <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a>
has given Florida a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/desantis-climate-change-energy-bill">law
to unleash Florida's contribution</a> to flooding the state's territory.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(Justices_Alito's_Stop_the_Steal)
title: Justices Alito's "stop the steal"
uri: Justices-Alito-s-stop-the-steal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(Justices_Alito's_Stop_the_Steal)
content:
 
<p>
Justice Alito put up an
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/17/supreme-court-alito-upside-down-flag">upside-down
flag outside his home</a> in January 2021,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/may/18/samuel-alito-flag-supreme-court-ethics-election">when
that gesture was a symbol</a> of support for
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter's</a> lie that the
election had been stolen.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(Gaza_pier_trucks_in_bits_of_food)
title: Gaza pier rolling trucks of food
uri: Gaza-pier-rolling-trucks-of-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(Gaza_pier_trucks_in_bits_of_food)
content:
 
<p>
The US-built pier in Gaza
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/gaza-pier-aid-un-distribution">has
begun operating</a>,  but it lacks the capacity to replace the land crossings that Israel has now blocked.

<p>
 


title: No new federal leases for coal, WY, MT
uri: No-new-federal-leases-for-coal-WY-MT
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(No_more_federal_leasing_for_coal,_WY,_MT)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(No_more_federal_leasing_for_coal,_WY,_MT)

content:
 
<p>
*Biden proposes end to new leases in US's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/biden-coal-leases-powder-river-basin">largest
coal-producing region</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(The_economics_of_a_climate_casino)
title: The economics of a climate casino
uri: The-economics-of-a-climate-casino
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(The_economics_of_a_climate_casino)
content:
 
<p>
*A 1°C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report">world
gross domestic product</a>, researchers have found.*

<p>
 


title: Glued climate activists block 60 flights, DEU
uri: Glued-climate-activists-block-60-flights-DEU
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(Glued_climate_activists_block_60_flights,_DEU)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(Glued_climate_activists_block_60_flights,_DEU)

content:
 
<p>
The German group
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/climate-activists-arrested-germany-munich-airport">"Last
Generation"</a> blocked the operation of Munich Airport to call attention to the
danger of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> disaster.  The group's name refers to the fact that future
generations' lives are likely to be cut short by climate chaos.
<p>
I agree that this tactic seems to be ineffective, but we can't blame them for taking
drastic actions when confronted by a problem that can expect to kill them, while the
public, like most governments, ignores it.

<p>
 


title: When activists slow-walked roadway, UK
uri: When-activists-slow-walked-roadway-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(When_activists_slow-walked_roadway,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_May_2024_(When_activists_slow-walked_roadway,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
*Three climate activists have been convicted of "interference with key national
infrastructure" by marching in the road in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/15/uk-climate-activists-convicted-in-first-trial-of-new-anti-protest-laws">West
London for 20 minutes</a>,*
<p>
The new system of repression of protests has functioned.  Whether it will
crush efforts to save humanity remains to be seen.

<p>
 


title: Assange win: UK concedes EU conventions
uri: Assange-win-UK-concedes-EU-conventions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(Assange_win:_UK_concedes_EU_conventions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(Assange_win:_UK_concedes_EU_conventions)

content:
 
<p>
Julian Assange will be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/20/julian-assange-wins-high-court-victory-in-case-against-extradition-to-us">allowed
to appeal</a> against his extradition after the US failed to satisfy the court's demands.
<p>
*The case against Julian Assange has been a cruel folly. His right to appeal
is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/20/julian-assange-cruel-folly-right-to-appeal-justice">a
small step towards justice</a>.*
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-nov-feb.html#20_February_2024_(Assange's_final_appeal,_UK)">The
extradition treaty</a> under which the US asked for his extradition is asymmetric
because the US never ratified it; but the UK chooses to obey it anyway.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(Death_of_President_of_Iran)
title: Death of President of Iran
uri: Death-of-President-of-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(Death_of_President_of_Iran)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/20/people-are-in-no-mood-to-mourn-mixed-reactions-in-tehran-after-death-of-president-ebrahim-raisi">Iranians
are celebrating</a> the death of President Raisi.
<p>
A new president will have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/20/iran-supreme-leader-hardline-foreign-policies-death-president-foreign-minister-analysis">no
effect</a> on Iran's foreign policy.

<p>
 


title: Arrest warrants: HAMAS and Israeli leaders
uri: Arrest-warrants-HAMAS-and-Israeli-leaders
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(Arrest_warrants:_HAMAS_and_Isrel_leaders)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(Arrest_warrants:_HAMAS_and_Isrel_leaders)

content:
 
<p>
*ICC
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/may/20/icc-prosecutor-seeks-arrest-warrants-israeli-pm-netanyahu-hamas-officials-war-crimes">prosecutor
seeks arrest warrants</a> for Israeli PM and HAMAS officials for war crimes.*
<p>
Here is discussion about how the ICC would
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/may/20/will-the-icc-approve-arrest-warrants-for-israel-and-hamas-leaders">decide
whether to</a> issue the warrants.
<p>
I hope it does so.

<p>
 


title: War protest: CA university sys strikes
uri: War-protest-CA-university-sys-strikes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(War_protest:_CA_university_sys_strikes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(War_protest:_CA_university_sys_strikes)

content:
 
<p>
*Academic workers at
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/20/uc-santa-cruz-academic-workers-strike">UC
Santa Cruz</a> strike over crackdown on Gaza protests.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(Red_Cross_turns_to_UK_for_ISR_access)
title: Red Cross turns to UK for ISR access
uri: Red-Cross-turns-to-UK-for-ISR-access
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(Red_Cross_turns_to_UK_for_ISR_access)
content:
 
<p>
HAMAS does not allow the ICRC to visit the hostages it took on October 7.  So Israel
has retaliated by barring the ICRC from visiting Palestinian prisoners &mdash; in effect
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/red-cross-uk-foreign-office-palestinians-in-israeli-detention">turning
them into hostages</a>.
<p>
HAMAS does not care much about Israel's Palestinian political prisoners.  It is impossible
to pressure HAMAS by being cruel to them.  But Israel can gain something by treating its
prisoners decently and showing the world that it is better than HAMAS in this and other ways.
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(Human_Rights_Watch_denied_entry,_RWA)
title: Human Rights Watch denied entry, RWA
uri: Human-Rights-Watch-denied-entry-RWA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(Human_Rights_Watch_denied_entry,_RWA)
content:
 
<p>
*Rwanda denies entry to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/rwanda-denies-entry-to-senior-human-rights-researcher">senior
human rights researcher</a>.*
<p>
There have been
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-nov-feb.html#24_December_2023_(Rwandan_dissidents_in_exile_in_Britain)">credible accusations</a>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#13_October_2012_(Kagame_imprisons_and_kills_opposition_and_journalists)">against</a>
President Kagame, and his interference with efforts to investigate them lends them credibility.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(The_flooding_in_Porto_Alegre,_Brazil)
title: The flooding in Porto Alegre, Brazil
uri: The-flooding-in-Porto-Alegre-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(The_flooding_in_Porto_Alegre,_Brazil)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/brazil-floods-toll">Unprecedented</a>
rain has flooded the city of Porto Alegre.  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> is causing this sort of
disaster in many parts of the world.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(Misaligned_mission,_OpenAI)
title: Misaligned mission, resignation at OpenAI
uri: Misaligned-mission-resignation-at-OpenAI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_May_2024_(Misaligned_mission,_OpenAI)
content:
 
<p>
*OpenAI
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24159095/openai-jan-leike-superalignment-sam-altman-ai-safety">researcher
resigns</a>, claiming safety has taken "a backseat to shiny products."*
<p>
As far as I know, "Open"AI does not develop any products &mdash; only (dis-)services
based on unreleased software that users can't even have as executables.
<p>
This news confirms my point that it is absurd to trust a company to
prevent use of its dis-services for
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_December_2014_(Cloud_computing)">harmful
or unjust purposes</a>.

<p>
 


title: Trump criticized for "unified reich" video
uri: Trump-criticized-for-unified-reich-video
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_May_2024_(Trump_criticized_for_unified_reich_video)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_May_2024_(Trump_criticized_for_unified_reich_video)

content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker's</a> campaign posted a video that uses
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/21/donald-trump-video-unified-reich">Nazi terminology</a>.
<p>
When challenged, the campaign said it was posted by someone who hadn't taken the
trouble to check the wording in it.  That level of carelessness strikes me as implausible.
<p>
Given how often <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> goes in for promoting fascism and Nazism, I think it is
more plausible that this was intentional and the falsehood is intentional too.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_May_2024_(Journalist_violence,_ISR)
title: Violence against journalist, ISR
uri: Violence-against-journalist-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_May_2024_(Journalist_violence,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
*Israeli officials seize camera from
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/israeli-officials-seize-camera-equipment-from-journalists-in-gaza">[Associated
Press] news agency</a>, cutting live feed of Gaza.*
<p>
Israel's pretext for this action is not even worth discussing, since
such pretexts cannot justify cutting off press coverage for the public.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_May_2024_(UNRWA:_nothing_to_distribute)
title: UNRWA: nothing to distribute
uri: UNRWA-nothing-to-distribute
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_May_2024_(UNRWA:_nothing_to_distribute)
content:
 
<p>
UNRWA says that it has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/un-suspends-food-aid-in-rafah-over-lack-of-supplies-and-insecurity">no
supplies</a> to distribute in Rafah, and that no aid is actually arriving through the
US's much-hyped pier for aid supplies.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_May_2024_(More_laws_ignoring_global_boiling,_FL)
title: More laws ignoring global boiling, FL
uri: More-laws-ignoring-global-boiling-FL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_May_2024_(More_laws_ignoring_global_boiling,_FL)
content:
 
<p>
Governor <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">Dementis</a> and the Florida Republicans have passed a range of laws
that can only be described as
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/21/desantis-miami-meteorologist-tv-climate-change">"Do
anything possible</a> to roast our planet."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_May_2024_(International_relations_on_Israel_)
title: International relations on Israel
uri: International-relations-on-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_May_2024_(International_relations_on_Israel_)
content:
 
<p>
The US may use the ICC's possible prosecution of Israeli officials as an excuse
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/21/blinken-icc-court-prosecutor-warrant-netanyahu">to
attack its existence</a>.
<p>
Refuting
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/21/icc-benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-warrant">US,
UK and German criticism</a> of the ICC's proposed war crime charges against Israeli leaders.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Vital_supply-convoy_security,_ISR)
title: Vital-supply "convoy security", ISR
uri: Vital-supply-convoy-security-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Vital_supply-convoy_security,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
*Members of security forces giving settlers who intercept vital supplies
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/israeli-soldiers-and-police-tipping-off-groups-that-attack-gaza-aid-trucks">information
on location of convoys</a>, group says.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Freedom_of_the_Press,_USA)
title: Freedom of the Press, USA
uri: Freedom-of-the-Press-USA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Freedom_of_the_Press,_USA)
content:
 
<p>
* It’s not possible for the US to prosecute Assange while claiming to
be a friend of press freedom. Biden should
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/21/gas-company-habitat-for-humanity">end
this now</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Fallout_from_death_of_president,_Iran)
title: Fallout from death of president, Iran
uri: Fallout-from-death-of-president-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Fallout_from_death_of_president,_Iran)
content:
 
<p>
*Ebrahim Raisi was no moderate, but his death may mean Iran becomes
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/21/ebrahim-raisi-iran-hardline-president">even
more hardline</a>.*
<p>
I don't see any way that Iran could become less repressive, other than via a
revolution which seems rather unlikely.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Violence_against_Gaza_protesters,_NY)
title: Violence against Gaza protesters, NY
uri: Violence-against-Gaza-protesters-NY
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Violence_against_Gaza_protesters,_NY)
content:
 
<p>
New York City <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> went to town
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/20/nypd-violence-pro-palestine-rally-brooklyn">beating
up the protesters</a> they had already arrested.
<p>
Even if those protesters deserved to be arrested &mdash; a question on which I won't
presume to trust the judgment of <!---->thugs was valid &mdash; it could not justify that violence.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Vice-_as_virtue-signalling,_USA)
title: Vice- as virtue-signalling, USA
uri: Vice-as-virtue-signalling-USA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Vice-_as_virtue-signalling,_USA)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">The fascist</a> energizes supporters by saying 
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/giving-liberals-the-finger">"fuck you" to
Liberals</a>, Democrats, truth, justice, and human decency.
<p>
When they start their coup, will we be organized to fight them and defeat them?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Political_border-patrol,_USA)
title: Political border-patrol, USA
uri: Political-border-patrol-USA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Political_border-patrol,_USA)
content:
 
<p>
Ilan Pappé: *I'm an Israeli critic of Zionism. Why did
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/21/ilan-pappe-israel-gaza-zionism">border
agents detain me</a> at a US airport?*
<p>
It seems that US government "security" agencies are meddling politically, which they have
no business doing.  Fortunately they did not bar his entry to the US this time.
<p>
I don't know Pappé's views in detail and I probably would disagree with part of them
&mdash; but I am incensed at the US government for meddling in this way.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Antisemitism_as_the_new_McCarthyism)
title: "Antisemitism" as the new McCarthyism
uri: Antisemitism-as-the-new-McCarthyism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Antisemitism_as_the_new_McCarthyism)
content:
 
<p>
The US faces a wave of McCarthyism, this time using "antisemitism" rather than
"communism" as the target for repression.  Congress is working on
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may/16/antisemitism-policies-free-speech">a bill to "combat
antisemitism"</a>
which is based on the IHRA criterion for antisemitism, which is a way
of arbitrarily declaring some views on political questions to be "antisemitism".
<p>
Jewish civil libertarians, including
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_May_2024_(IHRA_antisemitism_criterion)">the
author of the IHRA definition</a>, are campaigning against this bill.
<p>
Americans, if you love our freedoms, now is the time to defend them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(US_complicity_in_Gaza)
title: US complicity in Gaza
uri: US-complicity-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(US_complicity_in_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
*Biden will be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/20/biden-weapons-israel-gaza-war">remembered
as a president</a> who could have restrained Israel but instead made the US complicit
in this war.*  (Unless he pushes harder and actually changes Israel's actions.)

<p>
 


title: Windows 11 timeshift feature next month
uri: Windows-11-timeshift-feature-next-month
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Windows_11_timeshift_feature_next_month)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Windows_11_timeshift_feature_next_month)

content:
 
<p>
Microsoft will make Windows save all the screen output so as to look through it later; but
<a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-recall-ai-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/">don't
worry about snooping</a>, it says.
<p>
What Microsoft says about privacy seems impressive until you think about the
consequences of the universal back door that enables Microsoft to forcibly install
any change in the installed software.  If Microsoft wants to see some of the files in
your computer, it can look at them at any time.
<p>
Indeed, can you be sure it isn't looking already?
<p>
Cops too could seize your computer and look at those records, perhaps to see whether
you had an abortion.

<p>
 


title: Google's Android scanning audio calls
uri: Google-s-Android-scanning-audio-calls
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Google's_Android_analyzing_audio_calls)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Google's_Android_analyzing_audio_calls)

content:
 
<p>
Google has announced a new Android "feature" of analyzing the audio of phone calls and
<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/security-experts-alarmed-incredibly-dangerous-160129058.html">informing
when it hears</a> something resembling a deepfake scam.
<p>
That feature could potentially be useful, if it were implemented in a trustworth way (with
free software, for instance).  But given that it is implemented using nonfree software,
there is the danger it could be extended to scan for other things, perhaps conversations
about "subversive" topics such as defending human rights or rejecting nonfree softwae.
The notification when these are detected may go to the FBI instead of the user.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Taxing_producing,_selling_guns,_CA)
title: Taxing selling guns, CA
uri: Taxing-selling-guns-CA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Taxing_producing,_selling_guns,_CA)
content:
 
<p>
California has levied an excise
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/20/california-new-gun-tax-sales-violence">tax
on sales of guns</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(MDMA_therapy_for_veteran_health)
title: MDMA therapy for veteran health
uri: MDMA-therapy-for-veteran-health
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(MDMA_therapy_for_veteran_health)
content:
 
<p>
*The
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/05/20/va-veterans-mdma-ptsd/">VA Is Quietly
Fast-Tracking</a> MDMA Therapy for Veterans.*

<p>
 


title: Guantanamo prisoner released to Algerian jail
uri: Guantanamo-prisoner-released-to-Algerian-jail
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Guantanamo_prisoner_released_to_Algerian_jail)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Guantanamo_prisoner_released_to_Algerian_jail)

content:
 
<p>
The US released a Guantanamo prisoner to Algeria, which supposedly promised
to allow him to live in freedom, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/05/21/guantanamo-algeria-terrorism-prison-saeed-bakhouch/">but instead it jailed him</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Deepwater_oil_exports)
title: Deepwater oil exports
uri: Deepwater-oil-exports
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Deepwater_oil_exports)
content:
 
<p>
*Green activists push Biden to <a href="*Green activists push Biden to freeze ‘disastrous’ deepwater oil
 export [facilities].*">freeze ‘disastrous’ deepwater oil
export [facilities]</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Amazon_surveillance_lawsuit)
title: Amazon surveillance lawsuit
uri: Amazon-surveillance-lawsuit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Amazon_surveillance_lawsuit)
content:
 
<p>
Amazon warehouse workers claim <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/21/amazon-surveillance-lawsuit-union">Amazon has programmed the computers
that give them orders so as to disrupt union organizing</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Global_heating_and_rail_lines)
title: Global heating and rail lines
uri: Global-heating-and-rail-lines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Global_heating_and_rail_lines)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> effects are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/uk-rail-faces-fight-to-stay-on-track-as-climate-crisis-erodes-routes">damaging rail lines in Britain</a>.
The rate of damage is increasing rapidly, and some lines may
eventually have to be abandoned, long before sea-level rise inundated
them permanently.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Racial_equality)
title: Racial equality
uri: Racial-equality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Racial_equality)
content:
 
<p>
*The Black Lives Matter era is over. It <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/20/black-lives-matter-diversity-racial-equality">taught us the limits of diversity for
diversity’s sake</a>.*
<p>
I hope the Black Lives Matter campaign is not truly over.  It is a
campaign to put a stop to the hairtrigger racist violence of uniformed
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.  That campaign is as justified and necessary now as it ever
was.  It deserves our support.
<p>
Diversity is a different issue.  Efforts for diversity are desirable
when they operate at the long term -- aiding the members of
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#disprivileged">disprivileged groups</a> to overcome the unfair obstacles that bigotry
puts in their way.  But we should not be carried away in pursuit of
diversity.

<p>
 


title: River-to-sea interview-style explainer
uri: River-to-sea-interview-style-explainer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(River-to-sea_interview-style_explainer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(River-to-sea_interview-style_explainer)

content:
 
<p>
*Norman Finkelstein on Gaza, "from the river to the sea" and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/17/university-protests-gaza-norman-finkelstein">political
messaging</a>: "We need to bring unity to this struggle."*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Displaced-revenge_on_prisoners_in_ISR)
title: Displaced-revenge on prisoners in ISR
uri: Displaced-revenge-on-prisoners-in-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Displaced-revenge_on_prisoners_in_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
Israel competes with HAMAS in regard to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/israeli-abuse-of-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-amounts-to-torture">cruelty
and violence towards prisoners</a>.  In effect, Israel is now using its political
prisoners as hostages for revenge.

<p>
 


title: RWing appliance-efficiency attack-bills
uri: RWing-appliance-efficiency-attack-bills
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(RWing_appliance-efficiency_attack-bills)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(RWing_appliance-efficiency_attack-bills)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/free-fridges-make-dishwashers-great-again-us-conservatives-odd-priorities">Republicans
are campaigning</a> to keep appliances inefficient and more expensive to run.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Wearing_a_mask_as_illegal,_NC)
title: Wearing a mask as illegal, NC
uri: Wearing-a-mask-as-illegal-NC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Wearing_a_mask_as_illegal,_NC)
content:
 
<p>
North Carolina's senate has
<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/16/north-carolina-mask-ban-bill-passes-state-senate/73716924007/">attacked
the right to protest</a> by prohibiting wearing a mask for anonymity.  Immunocompromised
people like me are also endangered.

<p>
 


title: Investigating a suppressed, UAW vote, AL
uri: Investigating-a-suppressed-UAW-vote-AL
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Investigating_suppressed,_UAW_vote,_AL)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Investigating_suppressed,_UAW_vote,_AL)

content:
 
<p>
Union busting by Merecedes defeated
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/17/uaw-mercedes-alabama-union-vote">a
campaign to unionize</a> its plant in Alabama.  However, the company made significant
concessions to workers to obtain this result.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Sex_education,_UK)
title: Sex education, UK
uri: Sex-education-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Sex_education,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
*Sex education in English schools set to be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/14/sex-education-in-english-schools-set-to-be-banned-before-children-are-nine">banned
before children are nine</a>.* These guidelines cover education of teenagers as well as
that of children, and some topics won't be allowed until age 15.
<p>
A fraction of teenagers find themselves (willingly or unwillingly) in sexual situations
before that age.  They would be better off knowing some crucial points about birth control
and preventing disease, and how to say no firmly but without rejecting the person, before
they need to know it.
<p>
Here is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/17/sex-education-political-football-childrens-sake-adults-grow-up">criticism
of that rule</a>.

<p>
 


title: Search engine changes this month, huge
uri: Search-engine-changes-this-month-huge
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Search_engine_changes_this_month,_huge)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Search_engine_changes_this_month,_huge)

content:
 
<p>
Google is
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240524090520/https://www.yahoo.com/tech/google-change-everything-hopes-won-171748234.html">enbullshitifying
Google Search</a>
to the max, converting it into presenting the ramblings of bullshit generators (described by Google as
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligence">"artificial intelligence"</a>).
<p>
I reproach the article for swallowing that conceptual error, and also for referring to
services as "products" (thus blurring an important distinction).
<p>
I have had no access to Google Search for many years, aside from a
period of time when I could access it via a LibreX proxy.  That is because
it depends on
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript</a>
code, which I won't trust.
<p>
I recommend people ditch Google Search and switch to other engines
such as <a href="https://duckduckgo.com">duckduckgo.com</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Israeli-Palestinian_peace_process)
title: Israeli-Palestinian peace process
uri: Israeli-Palestinian-peace-process
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Israeli-Palestinian_peace_process)
content:
 
<p>
Salman Rushdie: *Although he has “argued for a Palestinian state for most of my life
&mdash; since the 1980s, probably &mdash right now, if there was a Palestinian state, it
would be run by HAMAS, and that would make it a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/20/salman-rushdie-says-a-palestinian-state-formed-today-would-be-taliban-like">Taliban-like
state</a>, and it would be a client state of Iran."*  He finds it strange that some
progressive students support such a thing.
<p>
To me, it is disappointing but understandable &mdash; they are yielding to the tendency to
oversimplify situations into "side A vs side B".  If you think about the Gaza war in terms
of "pro-Israel" vs "pro-Palestine", then your condemnation of Israel's bombardment and
tends to lead you into supporting Israel's enemy, HAMAS.
<p>
Therefore I am <a><a href="/articles/benevolence.html">firmly pro-Israel and firmly pro-Palestine</a>.
<p>
*Can the Israeli-Palestinian
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/21/peace-reconciliation-dialogue-activism-middle-east-7-october-gaza-israel-palestinians-west-bank">peace
movement rebuild</a> after 7 October?*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Congress_and_military_price_gouging)
title: Congress and military price gouging
uri: Congress-and-military-price-gouging
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Congress_and_military_price_gouging)
content:
 
<p>
SCROTUS are proposing a law
<a href="https://substack.perfectunion.us/p/exclusive-house-republicans-want">to promote
increased gouging</a> by military contractors.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(USPS_protected_by_senators)
title: USPS protected by senators
uri: USPS-protected-by-senators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(USPS_protected_by_senators)
content:
 
<p>
DeJoy told senators
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-postal-service-will-delay-processing-network-consolidation-plans-2024-05-13/">he will not make drastic changes</a>
to mail delivery this year.
<p>
If that means what it sounds like, it could mean he will not undermine the effectiveness
of vote by mail.  I would not trust his word, though.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Freshwater-migratory_fish)
title: Freshwater-migratory fish
uri: Freshwater-migratory-fish
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(Freshwater-migratory_fish)
content:
 
<p>
*Migratory
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/21/living-planet-index-migratory-freshwater-fish-populations-decline-dams-weirs-mining-water-abstraction-pollution-threat-aoe">fish
populations have crashed</a> by more than 80% since 1970.* Various human activities seem
to be the cause.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(nellie_bowles)
title: Both wings: DEI
uri: Both-wings-DEI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(nellie_bowles)
content:
 
<p>
This book review is a resume of a book about the ideological intolerance of the American
left in recent years, by a reporter who formerly participated in that but
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/19/morning-after-the-revolution-dispatches-from-wrong-side-of-history-by-nellie-bowles-review">eventually stopped complying.</a>
<p>
I have not read the book itself &mdash; only the review.

<p>
 


title: Criterion for protests, UK
uri: Criterion-for-protests-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(uk_court_minister_interpretation_illegal_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(uk_court_minister_interpretation_illegal_protests)

content:
 
<p>
A UK court ruled that a minister illegally ordered a broad interpretation
of criteria for illegal protests, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/21/the-guardian-view-on-peaceful-protests-the-high-court-has-preserved-a-fundamental-right">which was supposed to be a court's job.</a>
<p>
The government has also passed unjust 
<a href="https://stallman.org/cgi-bin/new-polnote-search.cgi?term=rwanda+deportation">laws to restrict protest.
</a>
<p>
*Ministers are intent on restricting protest, and will flout the law to
do it. Don’t rely on them 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/21/suella-braverman-unlawfully-curbed-protest-protect-rights">to do the right thing.*</a>
<p>
Right-wing UK politicians propose many new laws to restrict protests
and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/close-to-a-police-state-campaign-groups-condemn-uk-report-into-protests">punish protesters.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(climate_victims_oil_firm_lawsuit)
title: Manslaughter case against Big Oil, FRA
uri: Manslaughter-case-against-Big-Oil-FRA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(climate_victims_oil_firm_lawsuit)
content:
 
<p>
*A criminal case has been filed against the CEO and directors of the French oil company
TotalEnergies, alleging its fossil fuel exploitation has contributed to the deaths of
victims of climate-fuelled
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/21/climate-victims-file-criminal-case-against-bosses-of-oil-firm-total">extreme
weather disasters.*</a>
   
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(inverbervie_community)
title: Coastal towns losing land, SCT
uri: Coastal-towns-losing-land-SCT
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(inverbervie_community)
content:
 
<p>
In northern Scotland, towns are being gradually
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/21/the-fear-has-properly-set-in-how-it-feels-to-watch-my-home-town-disappear-into-the-sea">washed
away by storms</a> exacerbated by global heating and sea level rise.  Some towns are
clearly going to be gone in a few years.
<p>
Similar things are happening elsewhere.  Land in North America at the
edge of the Arctic Ocean has been
<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/melting-accelerates-in-antarctica-so-far-2015-is-hottest-year-yet/">eroding even faster.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(oil_companies_report_fossil_fuels)
title: Top oil firms' pledges
uri: Top-oil-firms-pledges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(oil_companies_report_fossil_fuels)
content:
 
<p>
Oil Change International says, *Top oil firms' climate pledges failing
on 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/21/oil-companies-report-fossil-fuels-climate">almost every metric.*</a>
<p>
The pledges of BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Eni, Equinor,
ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies are basically greenwashing.
<p>
Those companies uses these pledges to stave off laws that would try to
make them really reduce greenhouse emissions.  At the same time, they
lobby to weaken the application of the existing laws that could limit
the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/greenpeace-procter-gamble-palm-oil-change">destruction of civilization.</a>
<p>
I expect that they help stir up farmers' protests against increases
in the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/cgi-bin/new-polnote-search.cgi?term=+price+of+fossil+fuels&type=Normal+search">price of fossil fuels.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(warming_climate_turning_rivers_rusty)
title: Heavy metals in artic, mnt streams, CO
uri: Heavy-metals-in-artic-mnt-streams-CO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(warming_climate_turning_rivers_rusty)
content:
 
<p>
*Warming climate is turning 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/22/warming-climate-turning-rivers-rusty-toxic-metals">rivers rusty with toxic metals.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(australia_drug_impairment_test)
title: Drugged-driving laws
uri: Drugged-driving-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(australia_drug_impairment_test)
content:
 
<p>
Australia plans to develop a test for being actually 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/22/medical-cannabis-driving-trial-australia-dui-roadside-drug-impairment-test">impaired as a
driver by marijuana.</a>
<p>
This is to avoid punishing drivers that are impaired, from those
that have lawfully used marijuana but too little to be impaired as
drivers by it.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(biden_gaza_2024_election)
title: Biden's Gaza in 2024 election
uri: Biden-s-Gaza-in-2024-election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(biden_gaza_2024_election)
content:
 
<p>
*Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/21/biden-gaza-2024-election">He may lose
because of it.*</a>
<p>
*Conditioning Aid to Israel Would Boost Support for 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/05/21/democrats-biden-voters-gaza/">Biden in Key States,
 New Poll Finds.*</a>
 
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(big_idea_sabotage_critical_thinking)
title: The thought-terminating cliche
uri: The-thought-terminating-cliche
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(big_idea_sabotage_critical_thinking)
content:
 
<p>
One of disinformationists' tools: the "thought-terminating cliche" that offers
an excuse to give up really 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/20/the-big-idea-the-simple-trick-that-can-sabotage-your-critical-thinking">thinking about what the truth is.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(daniel_ellsberg)
title: U. of Mass. chancellor rebuked
uri: U-of-Mass-chancellor-rebuked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(daniel_ellsberg)
content:
 
<p>
Professor Appy of the University of Massachusetts rebukes the chancellor for calling in
state thugs to arrest and torture students who had made an encampment, and reports the false
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/daniel-ellsberg-2668315633">claim that these
arrests contributed to "safety" on campus.</a>
He mainly focuses on what inspired him to decide to be arrested.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(democrats_fossil_fuel_industry)
title: Fossil fuel industry disinfo
uri: Fossil-fuel-industry-disinfo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(democrats_fossil_fuel_industry)
content:
 
<p>
*Investigate fossil fuel industry [for disinformation], top 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/22/democrats-investigation-fossil-fuel-industry">Democrats
 urge justice department.*</a>
 
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(fitbit_google_migration)
title: Surveillance of fitbits
uri: Surveillance-of-fitbits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(fitbit_google_migration)
content:
 
<p>
Google has moved the surveillance of fitbits to Google servers.  It
used to be done using 
<a href="https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Charge-6/Google-forces-Fitbit-customers-to-move-to-Google-accounts/td-p/5476101">fitbit-specific servers.</a>
<p>
Both kinds of surveillance are morally intolerable, and I don't see
why one is more or less bad than the other.  The crucial point is that
this sort of surveillance is gratuitous, because it can easily be
avoided.  The morally legitimate way to design such products is to let
users communicate directly with them from their own computers, running
free software.  That way, no company would get to surveil users
through the devices they supposedly own.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(pro_palestine_protest)
title: Pro-Palestinian speech surveillance
uri: Pro-Palestinian-speech-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(pro_palestine_protest)
content:
 
<p>
*The pretext of counter-terrorism as a reason to investigate Americans started with "red squads", 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/22/surveillance-pro-palestine-protest">HUAC and J Edgar Hoover</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(newsmax_2020_election_lies)
title: Newsmax' 2020 election lies
uri: Newsmax-2020-election-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(newsmax_2020_election_lies)
content:
 
<p>
*Newsmax accused of deleting evidence that it was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/22/newsmax-delete-evidence-2020-election-lies">spreading 2020
 election lies.</a>
 
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(alaska_youth_climate_change_lawsuit)
title: Fossil fuel project sued, AK
uri: Fossil-fuel-project-sued-AK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(alaska_youth_climate_change_lawsuit)
content:
 
<p>
*Young Alaskans sue state over fossil fuel project they claim violates their
rights.*
<p>
It would *roughly triple the state’s greenhouse gas emissions for decades*, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/22/alaska-youth-climate-change-lawsuit">the lawsuit claims.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_May_2024_(ICJ_orders_Israel_on_Rafah)
title: ICJ orders Israel on Rafah
uri: ICJ-orders-Israel-on-Rafah
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_May_2024_(ICJ_orders_Israel_on_Rafah)
content:
 
<p>
The International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop its attack on Rafah, reiterating
that it leads in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/24/icj-ruling-risks-for-israel-isolation-gaza-war">a
direction that heads towards genocide</a>.
<p>
The "any other actions" that Israel is ordered to cease would seem to
include its blockage of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


title: Independent run, Corbyn the stalwart, UK
uri: Independent-run-Corbyn-the-stalwart-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_May_2024_(Independent_run,_Corbyn_the_stalwart,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_May_2024_(Independent_run,_Corbyn_the_stalwart,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
Jeremy Corbyn is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/article/2024/may/24/jeremy-corbyn-independent-general-election-labour-keir-starmer">running for parliament</a>
as an independent.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_May_2024_(Unified_Reich_video_as_intentional)
title: Unified Reich video as intentional
uri: Unified-Reich-video-as-intentional
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_May_2024_(Unified_Reich_video_as_intentional)
content:
 
<p>
*[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#insurrectionist">The insurrectionist</a>]'s "unified reich"
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/23/trumps-unified-reich-video-was-a-message-not-a-mistake">video was a message</a>
not a mistake.*
<p>
It was a deniable dog whistle to get the Nazi storm troopers excited.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_May_2024_(Abortion_pills_reclassified,_LA)
title: Abortion pills reclassified, LA
uri: Abortion-pills-reclassified-LA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_May_2024_(Abortion_pills_reclassified,_LA)
content:
 
<p>
*Louisiana expected to classify abortion pills as
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/23/mifepristone-misoprostol-abortion-pills-louisiana">controlled
and dangerous substances</a>.*
<p>
This is an effort to ban drug-based abortions, but it could also endanger the lives of
pregnant women with various medical conditions.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_May_2024_(Hurricane_season,_US)
title: Hurricane season, US
uri: Hurricane-season-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_May_2024_(Hurricane_season,_US)
content:
 
<p>
*Summer of natural disasters may be ahead in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/23/hurricanes-above-normal">US
with "above normal"</a> hurricane season.* Caused by <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>, of course.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_May_2024_(Thunderstorm-damage_home-insurance)
title: Thunderstorm-damage home-insurance
uri: Thunderstorm-damage-home-insurance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_May_2024_(Thunderstorm-damage_home-insurance)
content:
 
<p>
Damage from medium-size thunderstorms is increasing every year in the US, and the result
is to make
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/24/hail-storm-tornadoes-midwest-home-insurance">home
insurance too expensive</a> in large parts of the US.
<p>
In this way, <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> is causing real problems for tens of millions of Americans already.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_May_2024_(FOI_requests_too_embarrassing,_UK)
title: FOI requests too embarrassing, UK
uri: FOI-requests-too-embarrassing-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_May_2024_(FOI_requests_too_embarrassing,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
*The head of the UK Environment Agency has admitted that freedom of information requests
have been buried by the regulator because the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/24/uks-environment-agency-chief-admits-regulator-buries-freedom-of-information-requests">truth
about the environment in England</a> is "embarrassing".*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(UAE_suporting_RSF_in_Sudan_civil_war)
title: UAE suporting Sudan civil war
uri: UAE-suporting-Sudan-civil-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(UAE_suporting_RSF_in_Sudan_civil_war)
content:
 
<p>
Accusing the United Arab Emirates of intentionally
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/24/uae-sudan-war-peace-emirates-uk-us-officials">fueling
the civil war in Sudan</a>.
<p>
I don't have enough knowledge about the situation in Sudan to judge these accusations.  In
general, I have not posted about
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#16_July_2023_(Sudan_RSF_as_malicious_militia)">this
civil war</a> for lack of background knowledge with which to make sense of the situation.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(US,_UK_on_the_Rafah_offensive)
title: Rafah offensive ruling, US, UK
uri: Rafah-offensive-ruling-US-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(US,_UK_on_the_Rafah_offensive)
content:
 
<p>
*After vowing to oppose any Israeli offensive in Rafah, Washington and London now see nothing fitting
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/24/us-and-uk-to-back-israel-against-icj-while-blurring-their-rafah-red-lines">their
definition [of "Israeli offensive</a> in Rafah"].*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Palestinian_Prisoners_in_Israel)
title: Palestinian Prisoners in Israel
uri: Palestinian-Prisoners-in-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Palestinian_Prisoners_in_Israel)
content:
 
<p>
* [Whistleblowers] describe Palestinian [prisoners] being
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/23/whistleblowers-allege-widespread-abuses-at-israeli-detention-camp-sde-teiman">beaten,
kept shackled</a> to hospital beds or made to stand for hours.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Palestinian_medical_doctors,_ISR)
title: Palestinian medical doctors, ISR
uri: Palestinian-medical-doctors-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Palestinian_medical_doctors,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
Israel has
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/05/24/gaza-palestinian-doctors-hospital-detained-missing-disappeared/">disappeared
hundreds</a> of Palestinian medical doctors.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Murder_of_BLM_protester_pardoned,_TX)
title: Murder of BLM protester pardoned, TX
uri: Murder-of-BLM-protester-pardoned-TX
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Murder_of_BLM_protester_pardoned,_TX)
content:
 
<p>
Texas Governor Abbott pardoned the man convicted of murdering a Black
Lives Matter protester, for motives of racism.
<p>
In effect,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/24/daniel-perry-pardon-texas">Abbott
has endorsed political murder</a>.
<p>
Does he endorse political murder of anyone by anyone?
Or only political murder of progressives by right-wing lunatics?

<p>
 


title: Protesting a luxury-tourism event, ESP
uri: Protesting-a-luxury-tourism-event-ESP
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Protesting_a_luxury-tourism_event,_ESP)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Protesting_a_luxury-tourism_event,_ESP)

content:
 
<p>
Barcelona's new city government, which is right-wing, illegally rented out the Parc Guell,
and harassed residents of the neighborhood.  When citizens organized
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/24/barcelona-police-criticised-protest-fashion-show-park-guell">a protest against this, thugs charged</a>
them, carrying sticks.
<p>
If a
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_April_2024_(Park_Güell_tourist_crowds,_Barcelona)">bus
route is overloaded</a> because of the number of tourists, the solution is to run more
frequent buses on that route.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Price-gouging_the_US_public)
title: Price-gouging the US public
uri: Price-gouging-the-US-public
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Price-gouging_the_US_public)
content:
 
<p>
*Companies in the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/23/corporations-price-gouging-big-oil">oil, hotel, meat and other sectors</a>
are price-gouging the US public. They’re not hiding it, either.*
<p>
This has to be a consequence of too little competition.  With more competition, companies
would have to reduce prices and increase production.  In most cases, that would mean no gouging.
<p>
But the fossil fuel sector is an exception.  Expanding production of fossil fuels until
demand is satisfied is the road to gigadeaths, If our government were effective for
terrible long-term problems, it would be organizing long-term contraction of that market.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Deep-sea_mining,_NOR)
title: Deep-sea mining, NOR
uri: Deep-sea-mining-NOR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Deep-sea_mining,_NOR)
content:
 
<p>
*[The WWF] is suing the Norwegian government for opening up its seabed for deep-sea
mining, claiming that Norway has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/23/norway-sued-over-deep-sea-mining-plans-wwf">failed
to properly investigate</a> the consequences of this move.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Weaponizing_free_speech)
title: Weaponizing free speech
uri: Weaponizing-free-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Weaponizing_free_speech)
content:
 
<p>
Corporations are weaponizing "Free Speech" to
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/corporations-are-weaponizing-free-speech-to-wreck-the-world/">eliminate
safety notices</a> regulations.
<p>
This is a consequence of the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corporationsunited">Corporations United</a> decision which ruled that
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_August_2014_(Businesses_allowed_to_vote)">human
rights apply to corporations</a>, even though those are not in fact human.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Police_killings_as_accidents)
title: Police killings as "accidents"
uri: Police-killings-as-accidents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Police_killings_as_accidents)
content:
 
<p>
*Why police killings like [that of] George Floyd get labeled "accidents",
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/23/police-officer-killing-deathsk">according
to a forensic pathologist</a>.*

<p>
 


title: (Satire) God's new 11th commandment tests
uri: (Satire)-God-s-new-11th-commandment-tests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_((Satire)_God's_new_11th_commandment_tests_halted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_((Satire)_God's_new_11th_commandment_tests_halted)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *God Testing Out
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/god-testing-out-potential-new-commandment-on-mice-1851488793">Potential
New Commandment</a> On Mice.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Trust_strangers,_DNK)
title: Trust strangers, DNK
uri: Trust-strangers-DNK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_May_2024_(Trust_strangers,_DNK)
content:
 
<p>
In Denmark it is normal for people to trust strangers, and they have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/22/the-denmark-secret-how-it-became-the-worlds-most-trusting-country-and-why-that-matters">good reason to do so</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Laws_and_ICC_rulings_for_everyone)
title: Laws and ICC rulings are for everyone
uri: Laws-and-ICC-rulings-are-for-everyone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Laws_and_ICC_rulings_for_everyone)
content:
 
<p>
*Call to prosecute Netanyahu for war crimes exposes the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/25/call-to-prosecute-netanyahu-for-war-crimes-exposes-the-wests-moral-doublethink">west's
moral doublethink</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Possible US dictator, but insular media
uri: Possible-US-dictator-but-insular-media
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Insular_news_orgs_on_a_US_dictatorship)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Insular_news_orgs_on_a_US_dictatorship)

content:
 
<p>
*The Media Still [Don't] Grasp
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/05/25/media-trump-danger-democracy/">the Danger of
[the fascist]</a>.

<p>
 


title: ICJ's 3 intervenings not enforceable, ISR
uri: ICJ-s-3-intervenings-not-enforceable-ISR
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(ICJ's_3_intervenings_not_enforcable,_ISR)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(ICJ's_3_intervenings_not_enforcable,_ISR)

content:
 
<p>
*Israel appears to be forging ahead with its offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah,
despite a new ruling from the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/25/israel-continues-rafah-operation-as-hostage-bodies-are-recovered">UN’s
top court to halt the assault</a>, which it said is worsening an already “disastrous”
humanitarian crisis.*
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Urgent:_Thank_Congress_ending_weapons)
title: Urgent: Thank Congress' ending weapons
uri: Urgent-Thank-Congress-ending-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Urgent:_Thank_Congress_ending_weapons)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/ty-military-aid">Thank members of Congress</a>
who supported ending Israel's use of US-supplied weapons in Gaza.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Thank reps' conditioned military aid
uri: Urgent-Thank-reps-conditioned-military-aid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Urgent:_Thank_reps' conditional_military_aid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Urgent:_Thank_reps' conditional_military_aid)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: Thank reps that
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/thank-representatives-who-voted-against-unconditional-aid">voted
against unconditional military aid</a> to Israel.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Urgent:_Unfavored_groups'_free_speech)
title: Urgent: Unfavored-groups' free-speech
uri: Urgent-Unfavored-groups-free-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Urgent:_Unfavored_groups'_free_speech)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://action.aclu.org/send-message/dissent">call on Your senators to reject
S. 4136</a>, which would authorize officials to eliminate any nonprofit organization by
accusing it of vague "support for terrorism".
<p>
For instance, any organization that protests against Israel's
atrocities in Gaza could find that people show up and chant, "HAMAS we
love you", and it could be wiped out of existence for that.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: US weapons shipments to Israel
uri: Urgent-US-weapons-shipments-to-Israel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Urgent:_US_weapons_shipments_to_Israel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Urgent:_US_weapons_shipments_to_Israel)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/gop-weapons-bill-israel">defeat
the GOP bill</a> to restart weapons shipments to Israel.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Urgent:_Ceasefire_in_Gaza)
title: Urgent: Ceasefire in Gaza
uri: 2024-05-28-Urgent-Ceasefire-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Urgent:_Ceasefire_in_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to use
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/rafah-promise">every possible means</a> of
influence to get Israel to accept a ceasefire in Gaza.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Urgent:_NO_Rafah-attack_support)
title: Urgent: NO Rafah-attack support
uri: Urgent-NO-Rafah-attack-support
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Urgent:_NO_Rafah-attack_support)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/ceasefire-rafah">call on Biden</a> to give no
arms to Israel that it could use to attack Rafah.
<p>
Stop denying
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/us-weapons-israel-human-rights-law">obvious implications</a>!
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Urgent:_ICC's_Israeli_war_criminals)
title: Urgent: ICC's Israeli war criminals
uri: Urgent-ICC-s-Israeli-war-criminals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Urgent:_ICC's_Israeli_war_criminals)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/president-biden-dont-protect-war-criminals-from-the-international-criminal-court">call
on Biden</a> to stop trying to protect Israeli war criminals from the International Criminal Court.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

<p>
 


title: CSIRO: viability of nuclear plants, AUS
uri: CSIRO-viability-of-nuclear-plants-AUS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(CSIRO:_viability_of_nuclear_plants,_AUS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(CSIRO:_viability_of_nuclear_plants,_AUS)

content:
 
<p>
The prospects of selling a nuclear reactor to Australia have been
undermined by a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/26/coalitions-brave-nuke-world-a-much-harder-sell-after-new-csiro-report">report
on how much time and money</a> it would cost.

<p>
 


title: Congress too slow on political deepfakes
uri: Congress-too-slow-on-political-deepfakes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Congress_too_slow_on_political_deepfakes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Congress_too_slow_on_political_deepfakes)

content:
 
<p>
The Republican who arranged to make deepfake
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/nh-deepfake-indictment-is-yet-another-wake-up-call-congress-must-act-to-prevent-chaos">robocalls
pretending to be Biden's voice</a> faces criminal charges for that.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Private_schools'_public_funding)
title: Private schools' public funding
uri: Private-schools-public-funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_May_2024_(Private_schools'_public_funding)
content:
 
<p>
*Don't Be Fooled:
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/school-vouchers-public-education">Voucher
Programs Are Coming</a> to Destroy Public Education.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Urgent:_Check_your_voter_registration)
title: Urgent: Check your voter registration
uri: Urgent-Check-your-voter-registration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Urgent:_Check_your_voter_registration)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: verify that your voter registration has not been purged.  Republicans are
doing their usual voter deregistration drive and you may have been targeted.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Urgent:_Respect_the_ICC)
title: Urgent: Respect the ICC
uri: Urgent-Respect-the-ICC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Urgent:_Respect_the_ICC)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to respect the International Criminal Court and
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/icc-gaza">reject sanctions against it</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: global minimum tax on billionaires
uri: Urgent-global-minimum-tax-on-billionaires
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Urgent:_global_minimum_tax_on_billionaires)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Urgent:_global_minimum_tax_on_billionaires)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-us-treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-to-endorse-a-global-minimum-tax-on-billionaire-wealth-ahead-of-the-g20-summit">Treasury
Secretary Janet Yellen</a> to endorse a global minimum tax on billionaire wealth ahead of the G20 summit.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Urgent:_Investigate_Justice_Alito)
title: Urgent: Investigate Justice Alito
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Justice-Alito
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Urgent:_Investigate_Justice_Alito)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on The Senate to investigate Justice Alito's
<a href="https://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/petition_2024_alito_flag_durbin">public
support for insurrection</a>.
<p>
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Regulate Supreme Court membership
uri: Urgent-Regulate-Supreme-Court-membership
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Urgent:_Regulate_Supreme_Court_membership)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Urgent:_Regulate_Supreme_Court_membership)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/batl-term-acts/">call on Congress</a> to
pass the BAIL and TERM acts to regulate membership of the Supreme Court,
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a> and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Urgent:_Replace_Postmaster_DeJoyu)
title: Urgent: Replace Postmaster DeJoy
uri: Urgent-Replace-Postmaster-DeJoy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Urgent:_Replace_Postmaster_DeJoyu)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/fire-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy-3">call
on Biden</a> to take the steps necessary to replace Postmaster DeJoy.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Urgent:_National_security_briefings)
title: Urgent: National security briefings
uri: Urgent-National-security-briefings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Urgent:_National_security_briefings)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on US intelligence agencies:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-national-security-briefings-for-trump">no
national security briefings</a> for <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>.
<p>
Whatever information he gets, he is likely to send to his friend, Putin.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Election_fiascos,_IND)
title: Election fiascoes, IND
uri: Election-fiascoes-IND
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Election_fiascos,_IND)
content:
 
<p>
*Electoral laws flouted, opposition MPs arrested &mdash; this is what it's like to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/26/electoral-laws-opposition-mps-arrested-narendra-modi-election-india">stand
against Modi's BJP</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(NYU_protesters_to_write_confessions)
title: NYU protesters' punishments
uri: NYU-protesters-punishments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(NYU_protesters_to_write_confessions)
content:
 
<p>
NYU demands student protesters write confessions for the crime of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/22/new-york-university-student-protesters">breaking rules with a protest</a>.
<p>
This reminds the author of the imposed self-criticism sessions in China.  It reminds me of
the "apologies" that are demanded of people who are canceled.
<p>
I think it should be possible, by careful use of irony, to cast doubt on university's
proclaimed ethical conclusions while nominally "confessing".
<p>
As for using episodes of The Simpsons to pose ethical questions, I think they are as good
as any other story for the purpose of starting a conversation about ethics.  What makes
the Simpsons so much fun is that it includes irony and doubts its presuppositions.  But
watching The Simpsons may raise real moral issues.
<p>
Can anyone tell me whether the contracts students must agree to in order to access the
materials for this exercise includes a promise not to redistribute copies of the
materials?  For instance, episodes of The Simpsons?
<p>
Does carrying out the exercise require running nonfree software &mdash; perhaps an app, or
nonfree JavaScript code from that site?
<p>
If so, I think the kind of ethics being taught here is, "Obey the powerful and the laws they have imposed."
<p>
The article uses <a href="/articles/on-hacking.html">the term "hacking"</a> to refer to
cracking &mdash; please keep this distinction in mind when you write about either of them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Climate_activists_as_criminal,_DEU)
title: Climate activists as criminal, DEU
uri: Climate-activists-as-criminal-DEU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Climate_activists_as_criminal,_DEU)
content:
 
<p>
*Alarm as German climate activists charged with
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/23/alarm-as-german-climate-activists-charged-with-forming-a-criminal-organisation">"forming
a criminal organisation</a>".*
<p>
This seems to refer to a German equivalent of the US "RICO" law,
<p>
Ever since I first read about the RICO law, I have worried that it could be used against
democratic protest activities.  The criteria for applying the RICO law are vague and general.
They were written to facilitate using it against secret criminal gangs, but make it hard to
guarantee that annoying protests are not targeted as well.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Starmer_campaigns_on_change,_UK)
title: Starmer campaigns on "change", UK
uri: Starmer-campaigns-on-change-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Starmer_campaigns_on_change,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Starmer has copied Obama's slogan,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/23/change-labour-starmer-hopes-simple-slogan-will-chime-with-exasperated-nation">"Change"</a>.
This invites voters to think of the changes they would like to see, and fantasize that
Labour would make those changes.  However, Starmer makes it quite clear that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/26/starmer-to-say-hes-changed-labour-as-party-rules-out-raising-income-tax-or-ni">the
real change</a> is that Labour now prioritizes wealthier voters.  I was unimpressed when Obama used
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#22_July_2016_(Progressives_have_raised_expectations)">vague
"hope" and "change"</a> as slogans, and I am unimpressed now.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Exploiter's_Libertarian_campaign)
title: Exploiter's Libertarian campaign
uri: Exploiter-s-Libertarian-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Exploiter's_Libertarian_campaign)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">The fascist</a> leader was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/26/no-wannabe-dictators-donald-trump-booed-at-libertarian-convention">repeatedly
booed</a> at the "Libertarian" convention when he asked that party to nominate him for president.
<p>
He was surprised by this powerful rejection, but it does not surprise me.
<p>
Their primary goal is to reduce taxes (which mostly benefits the rich), so I call them
"<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#anti">antisocialists</a>".  They are libertarians also, but that goal is secondary for them.  They
advocate for laissez-faire, <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#laissez-mourir">laissez-mourir</a> capitalism, not dictatorship.  Of course they
scorned <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>.
<p>
We true libertarians support that same human rights goal, by supporting progressive
candidates &mdash; who likewise defend human rights but also seek to tax the rich to fund
<a href="/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">crucial missions of the state</a>.
<p>
As for the <!---->antisocialists, if they want to have any sort of human rights in the US as of 2025,
they should vote tactically for Biden and other non-Republicans.  Those alone can defeat the
attempt to impose dictatorship.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Trump_cannot_free_Gershkovich,_RUS)
title: Repressor's influence: Gershkovich, RUS
uri: Repressor-s-influence-Gershkovich-RUS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#28_May_2024_(Trump_cannot_free_Gershkovich,_RUS)
content:
 
<p>
Russia says that the corrupter<!----> is lying about
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/23/russia-denies-trump-claim-us-journalist">having
influence with Russia</a>.
<p>
Since he and Putin both lie so much that we can't trust anything they say, the only thing
we can be sure of is that having <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> as president is far too high a price to pay
for the possible release of some of Putin's prisoners.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Automated_political_propaganda)
title: Automated political propaganda
uri: Automated-political-propaganda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Automated_political_propaganda)
content:
 
<p>
Today's bullshit generators are
<a href="https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/2/pgae034/7610937">already adequate
for generating</a> political propaganda.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Social_media_on_Google's_LLM)
title: Social media's facts on Google's LLM
uri: Social-media-s-facts-on-Google-s-LLM
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Social_media_on_Google's_LLM)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://searchengineland.com/google-ai-overview-fails-442575#:~:text=Google">Google Search's bullshit generator</a>,
described misleadingly by Google
as "AI", encourages users to run with scissors and to eat rocks.
<p>
If only users were not told repeatedly that this is
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligence">"artificial
intelligence"</a> they would call it a bullshit generator.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Urgent:_Boeing_contract_to_test_nukes)
title: Urgent: Boeing contract to test nukes
uri: Urgent-Boeing-contract-to-test-nukes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Urgent:_Boeing_contract_to_test_nukes)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/go/34272?c0=boeing-nukes.-3d-ns">call on
Congress</a> to cancel Boeing's nuclear weapons testing contract.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Investigate Mercedes' union-busting
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Mercedes-union-busting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Urgent:_investigate_Mercedes'_union-busting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Urgent:_investigate_Mercedes'_union-busting)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/congress-investigate-mercedes">call on
Congress</a> to investigate Mercedes's union busting.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: UnitedHealth's medical monopoly
uri: Urgent-UnitedHealth-s-medical-monopoly
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Urgent:_UnitedHealth's_medical_monopoly)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Urgent:_UnitedHealth's_medical_monopoly)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/block-uhc-monopoly/">call on the DOJ</a> to
break up UnitedHealth's medical monopoly.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Urgent:_American-Israel_PAC)
title: Urgent: American-Israel PAC
uri: Urgent-American-Israel-PAC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Urgent:_American-Israel_PAC)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Democrats in Congress to reject AIPAC, which supports
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-democrats-in-congress-to-reject-aipac">enemies
of US democracy</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Urgent:_Declare_a_climate_emergency)
title: Urgent: Declare a climate emergency
uri: 2024-05-30-Urgent-Declare-a-climate-emergency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Urgent:_Declare_a_climate_emergency)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-president-biden-declare-a-climate-emergency-5">call
on Biden</a> to declare a climate emergency.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Brexit's_effect_on_UK_campaign)
title: Brexit's effect on UK campaign
uri: Brexit-s-effect-on-UK-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Brexit's_effect_on_UK_campaign)
content:
 
<p>
The taboo about reevaluating departure from the EU makes it impossible to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/27/ignoring-brexit-will-make-election-campaign-most-dishonest-in-modern-times-says-michael-heseltine">honestly
confront the issues</a> raised by its consequences.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(The_ICC_sounded_the_alarm)
title: The ICC sounded the alarm, ISR
uri: The-ICC-sounded-the-alarm-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(The_ICC_sounded_the_alarm)
content:
 
<p>
*The ICC
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/23/the-icc-arrest-request-is-a-fire-alarm-for-israel-will-it-take-heed">arrest
request</a> is a fire alarm for Israel. Will it take heed?*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Global_courts,_a_contextual_history)
title: Global courts, a contextual history
uri: Global-courts-a-contextual-history
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Global_courts,_a_contextual_history)
content:
 
<p>
*In
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/27/icc-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-us-west">dismissing
calls for Netanyahu’s arrest</a>, the west is undermining its own world order.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Student's_rights_to_protest)
title: Students' rights to protest
uri: Students-rights-to-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Student's_rights_to_protest)
content:
 
<p>
*I run a university &mdash;
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/27/university-student-protests-gaza-right">people
like me</a> should be backing students' right to protest over Gaza.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(The_classified-docs_criminal_case)
title: Classified-docs criminal-case judge
uri: Classified-docs-criminal-case-judge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(The_classified-docs_criminal_case)
content:
 
<p>
*[A former White House lawyer] says [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter's</a> secret documents case] ‘could have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/23/trump-classified-documents-case-delays">easily
gotten to trial</a> and that Aileen Cannon has delayed on issues most judges would have
handled.*
<p>
This is more reason to suspect that that judge is trying to serve <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Abortion_rate_now_up)
title: Abortion rate now up
uri: Abortion-rate-now-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Abortion_rate_now_up)
content:
 
<p>
The abortion rate in the US has increased since the
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/05/26/abortion-bans-laws-deaths/">Supreme Court was
taken over</a> by the right-wing.  So has the sterilization rate for women, who are taking
precautions to ensure they can't need an abortion.
<p>
I hope to see Congress swing Democratic this year because of grass-roots support for
abortion rights.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Rice_grows_its_own_vit._A)
title: Rice grows its own vit. A
uri: Rice-grows-its-own-vit-A
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Rice_grows_its_own_vit._A)
content:
 
<p>
Greenpeace won a court victory in the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/26/the-observer-view-when-modified-rice-could-save-thousands-of-lives-it-is-wrong-to-oppose-it">Philippines
blocking commercial cultivation</a> of rice that has been genetically modified to produce
Vitamin A.  Deficiency of vitamin A kills around 100,000 people each year, world wide.
<p>
Any given genetically modified crop may be harmful, or not, depending on its practical
effects, which include whether it is restricts sharing among farmers by means of an
imposed legal monopoly (which could be a patent, or a plant variety monopoly).
<p>
The pesticide-resistant crops that campaigners denounce are harmful in practice, both
because of their restriction of farmers' rights and because the pesticides used on them
are harmful to wildlife and perhaps to humans too.
<p>
Vitamin-A-producing rice do neither of these kinds of harm, so they should be authorized.
<p>
See also my article,
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/biopiracy.html">"Biopiracy or Bioprivateering</a>?"


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Labour_on_climate_crisis)
title: Labour on climate crisis
uri: Labour-on-climate-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Labour_on_climate_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
The Labour shadow energy secretary agrees that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/25/just-stop-oil-alienates-people-from-its-cause-says-ed-miliband">climate
defense is an emergency</a> but says the tactics of Just Stop Oil are counterproductive
because they alienate people.
<p>
That might be true, but since they see that the climate emergency will kill them in a few
decades, what does he suggest that they do instead?  Should they join Just Trust the
Government instead?  Or Just Give Up?
<p>
It is the government's responsibility to be the climate leaders inspiring the people to
more action.  If they demonstrate that following them is more effective than following
Just Give Up, millions will rejoice and follow them.
<p>
French activists have chosen a different tactic: picketing the energy company TotalEnergies
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/25/nearly-175-arrested-as-climate-protesters-target-frances-totalenergies-and-key-investor">and
a big fund</a> that invests in it.
<p>
I saw ads for TotalEnergies in Europe recently.  It wants the public to associate it with
"all kinds of energy", especially renewable electric generation, and forget the
inconvenient fact that it is still increasing fossil fuel extraction.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Googling_now:_Section_230,_revisited)
title: Googling today: Section 230, revisited
uri: Googling-today-Section-230-revisited
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Googling_now:_Section_230,_revisited)
content:
 
<p>
One way to make use of bullshit
<a href="https://www.vox.com/technology/351189/google-ai-overview-section-230">generators
on web sites safer</a> would be for a court, or a law, to insist that their operators are
legally responsible for the advice given by that they generate.
<p>
This would entail changing section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to distinguish
between publishing other people's writing (for which the site is not liable) and publishing
material generated by software that the site's owner generates (or contracts to generate)
using software.  If generative systems participate in writing the text, the site would be
liable for that text.
<p>
An identified (even if pseudonymous) human author could to use a
generative system, but would then take responsibility for its output.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(ChatGPT_as_a_programmer_helper)
title: ChatGPT as a programmer helper
uri: ChatGPT-as-a-programmer-helper
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(ChatGPT_as_a_programmer_helper)
content:
 
<p>
ChatGPT was asked programming questions based on items in StackOverflow.  More than half
of the
<a href="https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-answers-wrong-programming-openai-52-study-1851499417">generated
answers were incorrect</a>.
<p>
Take care against admiting a bullshit generator into the sources of what purport to be knowledge.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Scientific_adviser_advice,_UK)
title: Scientific adviser's advice, UK
uri: Scientific-adviser-s-advice-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#29_May_2024_(Scientific_adviser_advice,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
The UK's former chief scientific adviser warns that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/25/another-pandemic-is-absolutely-inevitable-says-patrick-vallance-covid">the
world is not ready</a> for the next pandemic.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Urgent:_Right-wing's_Project_2025)
title: Urgent: US Extremists' Project 2025
uri: Urgent-US-Extremists-Project-2025
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Urgent:_Right-wing's_Project_2025)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-reject-project-2025">state
your disgust</a> for <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">the fascist's</a> Project 2025.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale
uri: Urgent-Fourth-Amendment-Is-Not-For-Sale
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Urgent:_Fourth_Amendment_Is_Not_For_Sale)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Urgent:_Fourth_Amendment_Is_Not_For_Sale)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.freepress.net/sign/fourth-amendment-is-not-for-sale-act/">call on the
Senate</a> to pass the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Urgent:_Crisis_pregnancy_centers)
title: Urgent: "Crisis pregnancy centers"
uri: Urgent-Crisis-pregnancy-centers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Urgent:_Crisis_pregnancy_centers)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on state attorneys general to
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/investigate-anti-choice-crisis-pregnancy-centers">investigate
the antiabortion mills</a> (self-called "crisis pregnancy centers") for mistreating clients
and abusing their personal data.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Urgent:_Let_2017_tax_cuts_expire)
title: Urgent: Let 2017 tax cuts expire
uri: Urgent-Let-2017-tax-cuts-expire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Urgent:_Let_2017_tax_cuts_expire)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/congress-must-let-the-worst-provisions-of-the-2017-trump-tax-cuts-expire-as-scheduled">Call
on Congress</a> to let parts of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter's</a> 2017 tax cuts expire.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Urgent:_Protect_vote-by-mail)
title: Urgent: Protect vote-by-mail
uri: Urgent-Protect-vote-by-mail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Urgent:_Protect_vote-by-mail)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/dejoy-vote-by-mail-24/">the USPS Inspector
 General and Board of Governors</a> to protect vote-by-mail from DeJoy.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Another_horrible_air_strike,_Gaza)
title: Recent horrible air strike, Gaza
uri: Recent-horrible-air-strike-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Another_horrible_air_strike,_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
An Israeli air strike on
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/27/global-shock-after-israeli-airstrike-kills-dozens-in-rafah-tent-camp">refugee
tents in Rafah</a> killed around 45 civilians at once.
<p>
If the Israeli air force really tries not to kill civilians, it was not trying very hard
that day.  The pilot could not have failed to see that the area was full of tents, if
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> considered the question.
<p>
Israel should obey the International Court of Justice, and the US should insist that it do so.
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


title: Contaminated landscaping products, AUS
uri: Contaminated-landscaping-products-AUS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Contaminated_landscaping_products,_AUS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Contaminated_landscaping_products,_AUS)

content:
 
<p>
*Some of the biggest [Australian]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/27/sydney-waste-companies-soil-contamination-landscaping-supplies-">waste
companies broke rules</a> meant to keep contamination [such as asbestos] out of landscaping products.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Drought_in_Zambia)
title: Drought in Zambia
uri: Drought-in-Zambia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Drought_in_Zambia)
content:
 
<p>
*"Crippling" drought in Zambia threatens
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/crippling-drought-in-zambia-threatens-hunger-for-millions-says-minister">hunger
for millions</a>, says minister.*
<p>
This is <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#climate">climate mayhem</a>.  We may be able to slow it and stop it, but
first we need to adopt a plan adequate to fully do the job.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(War_against_Int'l_Criminal_Court,_ISR)
title: War against Int'l Criminal Court, ISR
uri: War-against-Int-l-Criminal-Court-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(War_against_Int'l_Criminal_Court,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/spying-hacking-intimidation-israel-war-icc-exposed">Spying,
[cracking] and intimidation</a>: Israel's nine-year "war" on the ICC exposed.*
<p>
There was no shooting between Israel and the ICC, but Israeli officials described the
fight as "war".  I wish that Israel had refrained from war crimes against Palestine and Gaza.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Allergy_to_peanuts)
title: The allergy to peanuts
uri: The-allergy-to-peanuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Allergy_to_peanuts)
content:
 
<p>
Regularly feeding babies peanuts at
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/28/giving-young-children-peanut-products-cuts-allergy-risk-study-finds">the
age of 4 months</a> prevents 2/3 of the cases of allergy to peanuts.
<p>
This suggests that the cause of the great increase in allergy rate
in recent decades is due to a risk-averse behavior pattern.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Jean_Carroll_sues_bully_again)
title: Jean Carroll may sue bully, again
uri: Jean-Carroll-may-sue-bully-again
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Jean_Carroll_sues_bully_again)
content:
 
<p>
Each time E Jean Carroll sues <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> for defamation and wins, the bully responds by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/28/trump-e-jean-carroll-lawyer">conspicuously doing it again</a>,
<p>
He expects that this wins support from his followers, who imagine themselves joining in
his arrogance towards people weaker than he.  And he figures that if he wins or steals the
election, he will never have to pay those judgments.
<p>
Can the court hit him with something more unpleasant than another
damage award that he assumes he will never pay?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Unpopular_NGO_registration_bill,_GEO)
title: Undemocratic, NGO-registration bill, GEO
uri: Undemocratic-NGO-registration-bill-GEO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Unpopular_NGO_registration_bill,_GEO)
content:
 
<p>
Georgia has adopted a law to label NGOs with foreign support, such as
Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders, as "serving the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/georgian-parliament-overrides-presidents-veto-on-foreign-influence-law">interests
of a foreign power</a>".
<p>
There are suggestions that the adoption of this law represents an act of adherence to
Putin &mdash; but is that adherence manifest in any other way?  I have not seen any described.
<p>
Meanwhile, Georgia and Russia have been hostile for decades, and sometimes even at war.
If that has changed, how did it change and when?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Abuse_of_Interpol,_RWA)
title: Abuse of Interpol, RWA
uri: Abuse-of-Interpol-RWA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#30_May_2024_(Abuse_of_Interpol,_RWA)
content:
 
<p>
*Rwanda's top UK diplomat oversaw use of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/rwanda-uk-diplomat-interpol-target-regime-opponents">Interpol to target regime
 opponents</a>.*
<p>
To deport people to an undesired third country violates the right to
ask for asylum.  When that country has
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#1_June_2021_(President_Kagame_of_Rwanda)">a
repressive government</a>, as Rwanda has, that makes it even worse.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(ChatGPT_answers,_programmers)
title: Programmers' ChatGPT answers
uri: Programmers-ChatGPT-answers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(ChatGPT_answers,_programmers)
content:
 
<p>
Experimenters passed 517 questions from Stack Overflow to ChatGPT to see what output it
would respond with. 
<a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-chatgpt-answers-wrong">Around half the
answers</a>, when interpreted semantically by humans. turned out to be incorrect.
<p>
This is to be expected, because ChatGPT is not intelligent and does not understand the
meaning of text that it operates on.  It can do more sophisticated text manipulation that
Query Replace, but it has no more knowledge or understanding than Query Replace.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Poor_search_profits_Google)
title: How poor search profits Google
uri: How-poor-search-profits-Google
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Poor_search_profits_Google)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-05-05/the-day-google-started-to-get-worse-we-are-getting-too-close-to-money.html">How
Google decided</a> to make its search work worse so as to make more profit.
<p>
If I had experienced the recent enshittification of Google Search with so-called "AI", it might
have moved me to stop using it.  However, I had stopped using Google Search many years ago
because
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/manual/html_node/Overview.html">LibreJS</a> could
determine that Google Search wouldn't function without running nonfree JavaScript code.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Tactics against student protesters
uri: Urgent-Tactics-against-student-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Urgent:_Tactics_against_student_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Urgent:_Tactics_against_student_protesters)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on university administrators and boards to end the
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-now-to-tell-university-administrators-and-boards-end-the-repressive-tactics-against-gaza-solidarity-encampments">repressive
tactics</a> used against Gaza solidarity encampments.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Urgent:_The_voter_suppression)
title: Urgent: The voter suppression
uri: Urgent-The-voter-suppression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Urgent:_The_voter_suppression)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-congress-do-everything-you-can-to-fight-voter-suppression">call
on Congress</a> to do everything it can to fight voter suppression.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

<p>
 


title: Anti-western, militarized society, RUS
uri: Anti-western-militarized-society-RUS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Anti-western,_militarized_society,_RUS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Anti-western,_militarized_society,_RUS)

content:
 
<p>
Putin's propaganda and news blackout are effectively teaching thousands of young Russians to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/thousands-of-russian-youth-die-in-ukraine-war">want
to fight</a> for Putin.
<p>
This is a sad change.  It used to be that
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#28_February_2022_(Russian_troops_expelled_from_Kharkiv)">many
soldiers</a> in the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> looked for an
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#30_January_2023_(Hotline_for_Putin_forces_to_call_and_arrange_surrender)">opportunity</a>
to surrender, and some eagerly joined Ukraine's army.

<p>
 


title: Renewable energy, air-quality stats, US
uri: Renewable-energy-air-quality-stats-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Renewable_energy,_air-quality_status,_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Renewable_energy,_air-quality_status,_US)

content:
 
<p>
*Increasing use of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/29/renewable-energy-us-financial-benefits">renewable
energy in US</a> [yielded around 250 billion] dollars of benefits [over 4 years].*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Democratic_Party_planks_and_platforms)
title: Democratic Party planks and platforms
uri: Democratic-Party-planks-and-platforms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Democratic_Party_planks_and_platforms)
content:
 
<p>
Policies proposed by Sanders for the Democratic Party to to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/mass-layoffs-democratic-party">protect jobs from
businesses' predation</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Nikki_Haley:_finish_them)
title: Nikki Haley: "finish them"
uri: Nikki-Haley-finish-them
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Nikki_Haley:_finish_them)
content:
 
<p>
*Why is Nikki Haley scrawling genocidal
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/29/why-is-nikki-haley-scrawling-genocidal-messages-on-israeli-bombs">messages
on Israeli bombs</a>?*
<p>
My conjecture is, she is trying to out-hate <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">the fascist</a> leader so as to be chosen as his
running mate.
<p>
Whether or not Israel's atrocities in Gaza add up to enough to be qualify as "genocide", there
is no doubt that what Haley advocates would be genocide.
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Public Housing for the 21st Century ACT
uri: Urgent-Public-Housing-for-the-21st-Century-ACT
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Urgent:_Public_Housing_for_the_21st_Century_ACT)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Urgent:_Public_Housing_for_the_21st_Century_ACT)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-to-support-the-public-housing-for-the-21st-century-act">call
on Congress</a> to pass the Public Housing for the 21st Century Act.  It will set up
information-sharing to help the many cities that want to build more public housing.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: On national guard and protesters
uri: Urgent-On-national-guard-and-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Urgent:_On_national_guard_and_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Urgent:_On_national_guard_and_protesters)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/biden-national-guard-gaza-protest2?">call on Biden to
oppose</a> use of the national guard to crush protests.
<p>
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/05/04/1249023924/kent-state-shooting-activists-protests-survivor">See also</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Urgent:_Platforming_election-deniers)
title: Urgent: Big News platforming election-deniers
uri: Urgent-Big-News-platforming-election-deniers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#31_May_2024_(Urgent:_Platforming_election-deniers)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-news-networks-do-not-hire-election-deniers-2">call on news networks</a>
not to give election deniers a platform.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Another_Jan_6_indictment,_FL)
title: Another Jan. 6 indictment, FL
uri: Another-Jan-6-indictment-FL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Another_Jan_6_indictment,_FL)
content:
 
<p>
*Republican activist with ties to DeSantis and Rubio
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/29/young-republican-jan-6-indictment">indicted
over January 6</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Subverting_ICC_investigations,_ISR)
title: Subverting ICC investigations, ISR
uri: Subverting-ICC-investigations-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Subverting_ICC_investigations,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
Kenneth Roth, former head of Human Rights Watch: *The ICC spying
revelations show the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/29/international-criminal-court-israel-spying-intimidation">Israeli
government</a> to be a lawless regime.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Gaza_border-control_complete,_ISR)
title: Gaza border-control complete, ISR
uri: Gaza-border-control-complete-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Gaza_border-control_complete,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/israel-idf-philadelphi-corridor-rafah-gaza-control-palestine-war-hamas">Israel's
army</a> now controls the whole border of Gaza, including the whole border with Egypt.
<p>
If the flow of humanitarian aid is insufficient for the people of Gaza, Israel will be
completely and directly responsible.  (Aside from the meager quantities delivered by air and
sea, but they are not enough to change who survives.)  Other governments must hold Israel
responsible for any shortfall.
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


title: Asylum-seeker round-ups speculative, UK
uri: Asylum-seeker-round-ups-speculative-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Assylum-seeker_round-ups_speculative,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Assylum-seeker_round-ups_speculative,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
The UK has jailed asylum seekers from some very dangerous countries as
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/28/im-frightened-the-asylum-seekers-rounded-up-to-be-sent-to-rwanda">preparation
for sending them to Rwanda</a>.  These include
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-jan-apr.html#09 April 2007 (Deporting to danger)">Sudan</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#16_June_2015_(Extreme_repression_in_Eritrea)">Eritrea</a>
and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Women_and_Journalists_targets_of_violence_in_Afghanistan)">Afghanistan</a>.
A refugee from one of those countries has a good chance of qualifying for asylum.
<p>
The UK has become incompetent at all sorts of ordinary government transactions.  I don't know
why, but I suspect (1) budget cuts have left insufficient staff to do the job and (2) a desire
to punish asylum seekers and drive them away.  Perhaps also bureaucratic rigidity and
unwillingness to give those staff any responsibility.
<p>
The result of this is that judging an asylum case takes years, so the number of asylum seekers grows and grows.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Urgent:_Devastation_in_Rafah)
title: Urgent: Devastation in Rafah
uri: Urgent-Devastation-in-Rafah
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Urgent:_Devastation_in_Rafah)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/ceasefire-rafah">call on Biden</a>
to do all he can to avoid devastation in Rafah.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a> and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Farmland_PFAS)
title: Farmland PFAS
uri: Farmland-PFAS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Farmland_PFAS)
content:
 
<p>
The US is considering
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/30/farm-bill-pfas-forever-chemicals">a
law to bail out farmers</a> whose land was contaminated by PFAS in sewage sludge.
<p>
I sympathize with those farmers, and bailing them out is fair, since they were not themselves to
blame for the problem.  But what happens to those farmers is a secondary issue.  If it turns
out that those PFAS make food unhealthful, the main problem will be how and where to grow safe food.
<p>
Meanwhile, the most urgent measure to take, in this domain, is to prevent ruining any more farmland this way.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Pollution_vs_global_heating)
title: Air pollution vs global heating
uri: Air-pollution-vs-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Pollution_vs_global_heating)
content:
 
<p>
Ships switched to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/30/termination-shock-cut-in-ship-pollution-sparked-global-heating-spurt">cleaner
fuel</a> in 2020.  The resulting decrease in air pollution resulted in a jump in <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: FB's CrowdTangle analysis tool
uri: Urgent-FB-s-CrowdTangle-analysis-tool
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Urgent:_FB's_CrowdTangle_analysis_tool)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Urgent:_FB's_CrowdTangle_analysis_tool)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-now-save-facebook-transparency">call on
Facebook</a> to preserve the CrowdTangle analysis tool.
<p>
I refuse to let Facebook use me, and I hope you do likewise; but since Facebook exists, we
should preserve methods to analyze how it uses people.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Urgent:_Clean_energy_transmission)
title: Urgent: Clean energy transmission
uri: Urgent-Clean-energy-transmission
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Urgent:_Clean_energy_transmission)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-congress-pass-clean-energy-transmission-legislation">call on Congress</a>
to pass clean energy transmission legislation &mdash; to speed the connection of new renewable energy generators to the power grid.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Prenatal and maternity support
uri: Urgent-Prenatal-and-maternity-support
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Urgent:_Prenatal_and_maternity_support)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Urgent:_Prenatal_and_maternity_support)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-to-support-the-black-maternal-health-momnibus-act-to-save-lives">call on Congress</a>
to pass the bill to improve prenatal and maternity support for women who are poor or disprivileged.
<p>
The bill's name is misleading, but its substance is good.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Public funding private schools
uri: Urgent-Public-funding-private-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Urgent:_public_funding_private_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#1_June_2024_(Urgent:_public_funding_private_schools)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on states not to
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-dont-divert-public-school-funds-to-private-schools-3">divert
public school funds</a> to private schools.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Cheater_found_felonious_by_peers)
title: Cheater found very felonious by peers
uri: Cheater-found-very-felonious-by-peers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Cheater_found_felonious_by_peers)
content:
 
<p>
*The corrupter has been found guilty of all 34 counts of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/30/trump-trial-hush-money-verdict">falsifying business records</a>
in a criminal hush-money scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.*
<p>
This means
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(The_bully_tells_his_prosecuters)">his
efforts to bully and intimidate</a> the court did not succeed.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Name prison after former president
uri: Urgent-Name-prison-after-former-president
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Urgent:_Name_prison_after_former_president)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Urgent:_Name_prison_after_former_president)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to rename the closest federal prison to Mar-a-Lago as the
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-rename-a-prison-after-trump-instead-of-an-airport-3">"Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution."</a>
<p>
Let's look forward to seeing him as an inmate there.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Netanyahu congressional speech
uri: Urgent-Netanyahu-congressional-speech
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Urgent:_Netanyahu_congressional_speech_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Urgent:_Netanyahu_congressional_speech_)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/no-bibi">call on Maj Leader Schumer</a>
not to give Netanyahu a platform in front of Congress.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(First_climate_accountability_law,_VT)
title: First climate accountability law, VT
uri: First-climate-accountability-law-VT
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(First_climate_accountability_law,_VT)
content:
 
<p>
*Vermont becomes first state to require
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/31/vermont-oil-companies-climate-superfund-act">big
oil to pay</a> for climate damages.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Urgent:_Curb_global_heating)
title: Urgent: Curb global heating
uri: 2024-06-02-Urgent-Curb-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Urgent:_Curb_global_heating)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-the-fed-to-fight-climate-change">call on the Federal Reserve</a>
to support curbing global heating.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(All_new_fossil-fuel_licences_unneeded)
title: All new fossil-fuel licences unneeded
uri: All-new-fossil-fuel-licences-unneeded
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(All_new_fossil-fuel_licences_unneeded)
content:
 
<p>
The world has enough fossil fuel resources in existence and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/30/no-need-for-countries-to-issue-new-oil-gas-or-coal-licences-study-finds">in
development</a>
to last until 2050,  without licensing any more.
<p>
After 2050, if civilization is to survive, it will have reduced consumption to the point where
no more will be needed.
<p>
The report provides *“a rigorous scientific basis” for global governments to ban new fossil
fuel projects and begin a managed decline of the fossil fuel industry, while encouraging
investment in clean energy alternatives.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Spotify_Car_Thing_device_as_e-waste)
title: Spotify Car Thing device as e-waste
uri: Spotify-Car-Thing-device-as-e-waste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Spotify_Car_Thing_device_as_e-waste)
content:
 
<p>
Spotify sold a product to make cars listen to Spotify's dis-service. Now Spotify plans to
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/pleas-for-open-sourcing-refunds-as-spotify-plans-to-brick-car-thing-devices/">make them all stop working</a>.
<p>
The customers who ask Spotify to release free software to power those devices are on the right
track, but as long as they call it "open source" instead of "free software", they will
undermine their own efforts.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Republican plans for Social Security
uri: Urgent-Republican-plans-for-Social-Security
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Urgent:_Republican_plans_for_Social_Security)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Urgent:_Republican_plans_for_Social_Security)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-media-make-sure-voters-know-the-stakes-for-social-security">call
on the major media</a> to make sure voters know the stakes for Social Security in this year's election.

<p>
 


title: Columbia U. shift restricts due process
uri: Columbia-U-shift-restricts-due-process
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Columbia_U._shift_restricts_due_process)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Columbia_U._shift_restricts_due_process)

content:
 
<p>
Columbia University has abruptly changed its hearing rules to make it harder for students
accused of protesting to
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/05/31/columbia-gaza-student-protest-discipline-changes/">defend
themselves</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Stock-trading members of congress
uri: Urgent-Stock-trading-members-of-congress
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Urgent:_Stock-trading_members_of_congress)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Urgent:_Stock-trading_members_of_congress)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-ban-members-of-congress-from-buying-and-selling-individual-stocks">call
on Congress</a> to ban members of Congress from buying and selling individual stocks.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: State-Based Universal Health Care Act
uri: Urgent-State-Based-Universal-Health-Care-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Urgent:_State-Based_Universal_Health_Care_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Urgent:_State-Based_Universal_Health_Care_Act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/contact-congress-today-to-pass-the-state-based-universal-health-care-act">call
on Congress</a> to pass the State-Based Universal Health Care Act.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Urgent:_Student_debt_relief)
title: Urgent: Student debt relief
uri: Urgent-Student-debt-relief
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#2_June_2024_(Urgent:_Student_debt_relief)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-now-support-student-debt-relief">support Biden's latest effort</a>
for student debt relief.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a> and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Post_office_as_foreign_owned,_UK)
title: Post office as foreign owned, UK
uri: Post-office-as-foreign-owned-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Post_office_as_foreign_owned,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Britain's post office, privatized by Tories a decade ago, is now
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/29/royal-mails-foreign-sale-would-put-a-500-year-old-national-service-in-jeopardy">threatened
with a leveraged buyout</a> by a foreign billionaire.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Samsung_attacks_repair_process)
title: Samsung attacks repair process
uri: Samsung-attacks-repair-process
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Samsung_attacks_repair_process)
content:
 
<p>
*Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to [report] Customer Data,
and Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts &mdash;
<a href="https://www.404media.co/samsung-requires-independent-repair-shops-to-share-customer-data-snitch-on-people-who-use-aftermarket-parts-leaked-contract-shows/">Leaked
Contract Shows</a>.* Furthermore, the nominally independent repair shop is then required to
"disassemble" the phone which was repaired with truly independent parts.
<p>
All of those practices ought to be forbidden by law.
<p>
It is perverse to refer to systematic surveillance as "sharing" of the data that is collected.
Please join me in reserving the word "sharing" to refer to voluntary cooperation.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Cory_Doctorow_on_Biden_polity)
title: Cory Doctorow on Biden polity
uri: Cory-Doctorow-on-Biden-polity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Cory_Doctorow_on_Biden_polity)
content:
 
<p>
Cory Doctorow conjectures why Biden doesn't talk much about
<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/29/sub-bushel-comms-strategy/">the good things he has
done</a> &mdash; it is to avoid alienating his <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> supporters.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Urgent:_Biden's_IRS_budget)
title: Urgent: Biden's IRS budget
uri: Urgent-Biden-s-IRS-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Urgent:_Biden's_IRS_budget)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/corporate-tax-day">call on Congress</a>
to pass Biden's budget for the IRS.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Billionaire Minimum Income Tax
uri: Urgent-Billionaire-Minimum-Income-Tax
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Urgent:_Billionaire_Minimum_Income_Tax)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Urgent:_Billionaire_Minimum_Income_Tax)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-pass-the-billionaire-minimum-income-tax-to-limit-the-political-power-of-americas-richest-families">call
on Congress</a> to pass the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax to limit the political power of
America's richest families.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Urgent:_Human_rights_to_utilities)
title: Urgent: Human rights to utilities
uri: Urgent-Human-rights-to-utilities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Urgent:_Human_rights_to_utilities)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-to-support-the-resolution-recognizing-the-human-right-to-utilities">support
the Resolution</a> Recognizing the Human Right to Utilities.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Coca_Cola_publicity)
title: Coca Cola publicity
uri: Coca-Cola-publicity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Coca_Cola_publicity)
content:
 
<p>
Coca Cola publicity usually shows the old-style
<a href="https://www.storyofstuff.org/blog/analyzing-coca-cola-advertising/">reusable glass
bottles</a> that in reality it uses for only 10% of sales.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Officials_threaten_journalists,_ISR)
title: Officials threaten journalists, ISR
uri: Officials-threaten-journalists-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Officials_threaten_journalists,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
*Israeli journalist describes threats [by Israeli officials] over reporting
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/journalist-threatened-over-reporting-on-spy-chief-and-icc-israeli-newspaper-says">on
spy chief and ICC</a>.*
<p>
Military censorship of news reporting is standard practice in Israel. In Israel's first three
decades, it feared invasion at any time by Arab armies, and was always partly on a war footing.
But that has changed.  In the 21st century, the threat of political embarrassment became the
focus of press censorship.
<p>
In 2011, Israel's
<a href="https://stallman.orgg/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#06%20January%202011%20(Blau%20Back%20In%20Israel)">leading
investigative journalist</a> was prosecuted and silenced.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Guantanamo_prosecutorial_misconduct_)
title: Guantanamo prosecutorial misconduct
uri: Guantanamo-prosecutorial-misconduct
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Guantanamo_prosecutorial_misconduct_)
content:
 
<p>
Guantanamo prosecutors are trying to use one prisoner's confession under torture as evidence
against another prisoner.  They
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/06/01/guantanamo-prosecutors-torture-testimony-confession/">failed
to inform</a> the defendant's lawyers about the torture, in effect passing it off as a sincere
confession.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(US_cease-fire_plan,_ISR)
title: US cease-fire plan, ISR
uri: US-cease-fire-plan-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(US_cease-fire_plan,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/01/no-end-to-gaza-war-until-destruction-of-hamas-says-netanyahu-israel">Netanyahu obdurately rejects</a>
Biden's cease-fire plan and insists on
fighting HAMAS until it is totally destroyed.
<p>
Destroying an underground resistance movement, even one without tunnels, is generally nearly
impossible as long as it can recruit from the population.  So this decision implies an intention
to keep killing Palestinians until there is hardly anyone left in Gaza to recruit.
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Urgent:_Divest_from_war_industry)
title: Urgent: Divest from war industry
uri: Urgent-Divest-from-war-industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Urgent:_Divest_from_war_industry)
content:
 
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-universities-divest">call on Universities</a>
to divest from the war industry.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Voter-ID_law,_UK)
title: Voter-ID law fiasco, UK
uri: Voter-ID-law-fiasco-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Voter-ID_law,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
The UK 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/01/lib-dems-vow-to-abolish-use-of-voter-id-at-polling-stations">Liberal
Democrats call for abolishing</a> the right-wing voter-ID law.  I wonder whether Starmer will
support this.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Voter_supression,_KS)
title: Free-speech, voter suppression, KS
uri: Free-speech-voter-suppression-KS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Voter_supression,_KS)
content:
 
<p>
*Kansas supreme court rules state
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/01/kansas-supreme-court-right-to-vote">constitution
does not provide</a> the right to vote.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Urgent:_Election_integrity_online)
title: Urgent: Election integrity online
uri: Urgent-Election-integrity-online
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Urgent:_Election_integrity_online)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.freepress.net/sign/big-tech-protect-users">call on Discussion and comment
platforms</a> to protect election integrity.
<p>
The petition misuses the term
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligence">"AI"</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Urgent:_Investigate_Ted_Cruz)
title: Urgent: Investigate Ted Cruz
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Ted-Cruz
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#3_June_2024_(Urgent:_Investigate_Ted_Cruz)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-the-doj-investigate-ted-cruz">call on the
DOJ</a> to investigate Ted Cruz for apparent campaign finance violations

<p>
 


title: Soulful humanitarian-aid guardians, ISR
uri: Soulful-humanitarian-aid-guardians-ISR
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Soulful_humanitarian-aid_guardians,_ISR)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Soulful_humanitarian-aid_guardians,_ISR)

content:
 
<p>
*"Solidarity over hatred": the small band of Israelis
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/31/solidarity-over-hatred-the-small-band-of-israelis-stopping-settlers-obstructing-aid-trucks">stopping
settlers obstructing</a> aid trucks.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Recent_horrible_air_strike,_Gaza)
title: Recent horrible air strike, Gaza
uri: 2024-06-05-Recent-horrible-air-strike-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Recent_horrible_air_strike,_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
*Ocasio-Cortez Says Biden Must Suspend Israeli Aid After
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-warns-netanyahu-against-launching-military-operation-in-rafah">"Indefensible
Atrocity</a>" in Rafah.*
<p>
I deplore the article's use of the name "X" to refer to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#extwitter">Ex-Twitter</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: End sanctions against Venezuela
uri: Urgent-End-sanctions-against-Venezuela
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Urgent:_End_sanctions_against_Venezuala)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Urgent:_End_sanctions_against_Venezuala)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-support-the-end-of-broad-based-sanctions-for-venezuela">call
on Biden</a> to end the broad sanctions against Venezuela.
<p>
Maduro has no respect for democracy, but the sanctions against Venezuela harm the people rather
than the rulers.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a> and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Urgent:_Ban_US_gas_export_facilities)
title: Urgent: Ban US gas export facilities
uri: Urgent-Ban-US-gas-export-facilities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Urgent:_Ban_US_gas_export_facilities)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.350.org/sign/us-em-no-lng/">call on Biden</a> to extend the "pause" on new
fossil gas export facilities into a permanent ban.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a> and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Urgent:_End_fossil_fuel_subsidies)
title: Urgent: End fossil fuel subsidies
uri: 2024-06-05-Urgent-End-fossil-fuel-subsidies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Urgent:_End_fossil_fuel_subsidies)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.350.org/sign/us-em-end-fossil-fuel-subsidies/">call on Biden</a>
to end all fossil fuel subsidies.

<p>
 


title: The Australian exit-trafficking crime
uri: The-Australian-exit-trafficking-crime
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(The_Austrailian_exit-trafficking_crime)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(The_Austrailian_exit-trafficking_crime)

content:
 
<p>
Another nasty thing men do to dump
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/02/tricked-or-forced-out-of-australia-the-vulnerable-women-at-the-centre-of-a-hidden-domestic-violence-crisis-ntwnfb">women
who have immigrated</a> so as to be with them: "exit trafficking".

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Thug_of_hairtrigger_violence)
title: Thug of hair-trigger violence
uri: Thug-of-hair-trigger-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Thug_of_hairtrigger_violence)
content:
 
<p>
Another instance of hairtrigger violence by a uniformed thug<!----> against a
black man has led to the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/01/florida-deputy-fired-black-airman-death">resignation
of the thug</a>.
<p>
Is this enough to teach other <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> not to do this in the future?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(The_loser:_tough_on_crime)
title: The loser tough on crime
uri: The-loser-tough-on-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(The_loser:_tough_on_crime)
content:
 
<p>
*[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#insurrectionist">The insurrectionist</a>] has spent years complaining that American police and the criminal legal
system should be "very much tougher," arguing that some criminals should not be protected by
civil liberties, police should rough up suspects, and that a much wider range of people should
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/01/donald-trump-crime-punishment">face
the death penalty</a> for breaking the law.*
<p>
How about you, Mr Felon?
<p>
He should not be executed, though, because
<a href="https://stallman.orgg/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#30_September_2011_(Urgent:_Abolish_The_Death_Penalty">the
death penalty is inherently unjust</a> regardless of what the crime.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(UChi_protesters'_punishments)
title: UChi protesters' punishments
uri: UChi-protesters-punishments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(UChi_protesters'_punishments)
content:
 
<p>
The University of Chicago, like several other US universities,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/01/university-of-chicago-graduation-walkout">withheld
the degrees</a> of some student protesters pending possible worse punishment.
<p>
"We must shut down your protest For the sake of safety" is a veiled way of saying, "If you keep
up this protest, right-wing provocateurs or our security forces may do you violence, so we must
do you violence now to protect you."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Cease-fire_deal_fails)
title: Cease-fire deal fails
uri: Cease-fire-deal-fails
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Cease-fire_deal_fails)
content:
 
<p>
Biden's cease-fire deal failed because he thought to gain Netanyahu's agreement
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/01/biden-gaza-ceasefire-deal-lack-of-influence-netanyahu">using
influence alone</a>.  Netanyahu told him, contemptuously, to buzz off.
<p>
Biden could succeed if he dares to use real pressure, not merely influence.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Starmer_purge_debacle,_UK)
title: Starmer's recent purge debacle, UK
uri: Starmer-s-recent-purge-debacle-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Starmer_purge_debacle,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Starmer tried to purge Diane Abbott MP along with the rest of the Labour left,
but he
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/01/diane-abbott-labour-keir-starmer">had
to retract</a> this after it blew up in his face.
<p>
This purge accompanies many <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> policy commitments, such as not to raise taxes on the
rich.  But the purge is worse, because it threatens to convert Labour forever into a less
radical version of the Tory Party.
<p>
Resisting purges is the only way I can envision to enable Labour to be once again the "moral
crusade" it was meant to be.  Corbyn is resisting his purge by running as an independent,
against a Labour candidate who is so right-wing that he epitomizes what's wrong with Starmer
Labour.  (He has a business which competes against the NHS &mdash; just the sort of person you
<em>do not want</em> in Parliament.)  Abbott convinced the party to un-purge her.  Both count as
 successes.
<p>
But there have been several other purges that have not been resisted yet, including
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/31/faiza-shaheen-labour-deselected-chingford-woodford-green-general-election">Faiza
Shaheen</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Alitos_neighbor's_story)
title: Alitos neighbor's tumultuous story
uri: Alitos-neighbor-s-tumultuous-story
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Alitos_neighbor's_story)
content:
 
<p>
*Neighbors say
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/31/samuel-alito-flag-neighbor-interview">Alitos
used security detail</a> car to threaten them after dispute.*

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Justice Thomas Trump-case recusal
uri: Urgent-Justice-Thomas-Trump-case-recusal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Urgent:_Justice_Thomas_Trump-case_recusal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Urgent:_Justice_Thomas_Trump-case_recusal)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/thomas-trump-immunity-recuse/">call
on Clarence Thomas</a> to recuses himself in Trump's immunity case.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(Socialism)
title: Socialism
uri: 2024-06-06-Socialism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(Socialism)
content:
 
<p>
*Socialism isn't a dirty word.  It's simply about wanting to make a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/02/socialism-isnt-a-dirty-word-its-simply-about-wanting-to-make-a-fairer-society">fairer
society</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(Urgent:_Medical_Insurance_practices)
title: Urgent: Medical Insurance practices
uri: Urgent-Medical-Insurance-practices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(Urgent:_Medical_Insurance_practices)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stop-insco-overriding-doctors?">call on Congress</a> to
stop insurance companies from vetoing treatments ordered by doctors.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(Kfkaesque)
title: Kafkaesque
uri: Kafkaesque
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(Kfkaesque)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/jun/01/how-franz-kafka-inspired-word-of-our-times-kafkaesque">Western
culture</a> nowadays is fascinated by the word "kafkaesque".

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(Urgent:_Sales_of_assault_rifles)
title: Urgent: Sales of assault rifles
uri: Urgent-Sales-of-assault-rifles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(Urgent:_Sales_of_assault_rifles)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-close-the-gun-show-loophole-and-ban-assault-weapons">call
on Biden</a> to close the gun-show loophole and ban sale of assault-like rifles.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(The_business_of_food)
title: The business of food
uri: The-business-of-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(The_business_of_food)
content:
 
<p>
*Big Food, Big Profits,
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/big-food-big-profits-big-lies/">Big Lies</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(Food_prices)
title: Food prices
uri: Food-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(Food_prices)
content:
 
<p>
US food companies have raised prices by 25% since 2020.  Much of this was
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/big-food-big-profits-big-lies/">to increase profits</a> or
increase stock prices, rather than because of increased costs.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(Hamas_still_strong)
title: HAMAS still strong
uri: HAMAS-still-strong
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(Hamas_still_strong)
content:
 
<p>
*Hamas still strong in areas "cleared" by Israel in northern Gaza,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/03/hamas-still-strong-in-areas-cleared-by-israel-in-northern-gaza-say-experts">say
experts</a>.*
<p>
I forecast
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#17_October_2023_(Unknown_state_of_Israel_and_Palestine)">in October</a>
that Israel would
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-sep-dec.html#4_December_2023_(US_pressure_on_Israel)">not
be able</a> to wipe out HAMAS.  In general, an underground guerrilla uprising cannot be wiped
out as long as it can recruit new supporters.  It follows that when Netanyahu says he will
continue the war in Gaza until HAMAS is wiped out, this means in practice that he intends to
continue it as long as there are Palestinian in Gaza.
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(Urgent:_Weaponizing_Israel)
title: Urgent: Weaponizing Israel
uri: Urgent-Weaponizing-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#5_June_2024_(Urgent:_Weaponizing_Israel)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to send no more weapons to Israel
<a href="https://act.ourrevolution.com/signup/rafah-gaza-biden/">until it ceases atrocities</a>
in Gaza.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_((Satire)_Name_your_representatives)
title: (Satire) Name your representatives
uri: (Satire)-Name-your-representatives
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_((Satire)_Name_your_representatives)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Study Finds
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/study-finds-only-1-in-3-americans-can-name-their-repres-1851516531">Only
1 In 3 Americans</a> Can Name Their Representatives' Corporate Donors.*

<p>
 


title: Nakba scholarship censored, two US Uni.
uri: Nakba-scholarship-censored-two-US-Uni
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Nakba_scholarship_censored,_two_US_Uni.)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Nakba_scholarship_censored,_two_US_Uni.)

content:
 
<p>
*Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on [how Israeli law is applied to] Palestine,
So Its Board of Directors
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/06/03/columbia-law-review-palestine-board-website/">Nuked
the Whole Website</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Renewable_targets_missed)
title: Renewable targets missed
uri: Renewable-targets-missed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Renewable_targets_missed)
content:
 
<p>
*World will miss target of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/04/world-will-miss-target-of-tripling-renewable-electricity-generation-by-2030-iea">tripling
renewable electricity</a> generation by 2030.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Urgent:_New_England_power_grid_bills)
title: Urgent: New England power grid bills
uri: Urgent-New-England-power-grid-bills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Urgent:_New_England_power_grid_bills)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-tell-iso-ne-to-stop-sending-our-money-to-fossil-fuel-peaker-plants">call
on ISO-New England</a> to stop funding fossil fuel "peaker" plants.

<p>
 


title: CO2 emissions trading system fraud, EU
uri: CO2-emissions-trading-system-fraud-EU
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(CO2_emmisions_trading_system_fraud,_EU)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(CO2_emmisions_trading_system_fraud,_EU)

content:
 
<p>
The European CO2 emissions trading system proved to be an excellent
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/04/the-warring-conmen-at-the-heart-of-a-5bn-carbon-credit-scam">vehicle for VAT fraud</a>.
<p>
I did not know about this wrinkle until today, but I realized when I read about emissions
trading that it would provide
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#27_June_2022_(Carbon_credits_easy_to_game)">opportunities
for fraud</a> at the expense of Earth's climate.
<p>
The proponents of a "carbon market" tend to assume that such a market would effectively give the
same results as a carbon tax.  They disregard that every trade of emissions quota from A to B is
an opportunity for sleight of hand to hide some emissions somewhere between A and B.

<p>
 


title: Netanyahu's speech to congress boycotted
uri: Netanyahu-s-speech-to-congress-boycotted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Netanyahu's_speech_to_congress_boycotted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Netanyahu's_speech_to_congress_boycotted)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/bernie-sanders-netanyahu-speech">Bernie
Sanders</a> explains why he will not attend Netanyahu's speech to the US Congress.
<p>
He describes the enormous atrocities of Israel's bombardment and siege
of Gaza, which have killed or wounded 5% of the whole population.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Closing_US-MEX_border)
title: Closing US-MEX border
uri: Closing-US-MEX-border
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Closing_US-MEX_border)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/04/biden-us-mexico-border-asylum-seekers">Biden plans</a>
to "close" the US-Mexico border to asylum seekers entirely,
imitating what <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> tried to do as president.
<p>
Meanwhile, the Democratic leaders of the Senate negotiated a deal for restricting immigration
based on right-wing Republican policies, whereupon the Republicans rejected the deal, calling it
insufficiently harsh.  Trying to make a compromise with Republicans who are obeying the 
wrecker is a fool's errand.
<p>
The right to request asylum, and be considered for it according to the facts of your case, is
one of the triumphs of the movement for international human rights law that followed World War
II.  I fear that we are witnessing the effective abolition of that right.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Voter-fraud_fear_exploit)
title: Voter-fraud fear exploit
uri: Voter-fraud-fear-exploit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Voter-fraud_fear_exploit)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans are creating irrational outrage over Washington DC's policy of allowing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/04/washington-dc-non-citizens-voting-primary">non-citizen
residents</a> to vote in local elections.
<p>
The outrage is irrational because those targeted for outrage mostly
don't live there and therefore are not affected by the practice.
<p>
Many places in Europe allow non-citizen residents of a city to vote in local elections.  The
idea shocked me at first, but on further thought I concluded it made sense.  Non-citizen
residents have the same relationship to the city that citizen residents have: they benefit from
local services and support them with taxes.
<p>
Republicans would have us conflate the act of lawfully voting as a non-citizen, when and where
that is authorized, with the act of voting fraudulently.  But the two are completely different.
The latter is extremely unlikely, because what one can personally gain by voting is not enough
to motivate people to break a law.  In fact, individual
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2_May_2018_(Britain_voter_fraud)">voter fraud is very
rare</a>.

<p>
 


title: Dr Anthony Fauci's family: death threats
uri: Dr-Anthony-Fauci-s-family-death-threats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Dr_Anthony_Fauci's_family:_death_threats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Dr_Anthony_Fauci's_family:_death_threats)

content:
 
<p>
*Anthony Fauci says
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/04/fauci-death-threats-marjorie-taylor-greene-fox">Marjorie
Taylor Greene</a> drove death threats against him.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Insurrectionists_charged,_WI)
title: Insurrectionists charged, WI
uri: Insurrectionists-charged-WI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Insurrectionists_charged,_WI)
content:
 
<p>
*Wisconsin attorney general charges three former
[insurrectionist's] associates in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/04/wisconsin-2020-fake-electors">plot
to overturn 2020 election</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Ocean_health)
title: Ocean health
uri: Ocean-health
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Ocean_health)
content:
 
<p>
*Oceans face
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/04/extreme-heat-oceans-acidification">"triple threat"</a>
of extreme heat, oxygen loss and acidification.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(New_president_extraordinaire,_MEX)
title: New president extraordinaire, MEX
uri: New-president-extraordinaire-MEX
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(New_president_extraordinaire,_MEX)
content:
 
<p>
Mexico's new president is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/04/the-guardian-view-on-mexicos-new-president-a-stunning-victory-for-pro-poor-politics">a climate scientist</a>.
<p>
That ought to be a hopeful sign.  But I am worried about the plan to increase fossil fuel
extraction as an "investment" and use the profits to switch to renewable energy later.  Fossil
fuel "investment" has a tendency to carry society along into more and more of the same &mdash;
then, before you expected it, you're out of time and it's too late for civilization to survive.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Shoplifting_stats_soaring,_UK)
title: Shoplifting stats soaring, UK
uri: Shoplifting-stats-soaring-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Shoplifting_stats_soaring,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
In the UK, systematic shoplifting has become the supplier for fences who act as a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/02/did-you-pay-for-that-what-is-driving-the-massive-rise-in-shoplifting">discount
store chain</a> for the many whose income is too low to get by.
<p>
This is not a good solution for the problem.  I suspect that some
criminals are enriching themselves from it.  It may also lead some
stores to close.  But it is better than no solution at all.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(War_as_political_gain,_ISR)
title: War as political gain, ISR
uri: War-as-political-gain-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(War_as_political_gain,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
*Biden: "every reason" to believe
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/04/biden-netanyahu-ceasefire-israel-gaza-war">Netanyahu
is prolonging Gaza war</a> for political gain.*
<p>
I agree &mdash; so Biden, when will you put your foot down and stop this?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Youngsters_musical_atonomy)
title: Youngsters' musical autonomy
uri: Youngsters-musical-autonomy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_(Youngsters_musical_atonomy)
content:
 
<p>
The use by parents of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/22/phone-kids-losing-their-love-for-music">music-streaming
dis-services</a> is cutting children off from playing music on their own.
<p>
This is an example of the injustice that results inevitably from locking up music (or any kind
of recording) behind a web site or app that works only for someone who has an account, and which
blocks and forbids distributing copies.
<p>
As tends to happen, the author does not carry the criticism down to the root of the problem.
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#perse">Perse</a> suggests superficial workarounds that leave the system's injustice uncriticized.
<p>
The solution is to get DRM-free copies of music, and copy them into a player made with free
software that a child can use.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_((Satire)_Deportation_order)
title: (Satire) Deportation order
uri: (Satire)-Deportation-order
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#6_June_2024_((Satire)_Deportation_order)
content:
 
<p>
(satire)
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/biden-signs-executive-order-to-deport-all-340-million-a-1851516638">*Biden
Signs Executive Order</a> To Deport All 340 Million Americans And Start From Scratch.*

<p>
 


title: Modi's party not a legislative majority
uri: Modi-s-party-not-a-legislative-majority
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Modi's_party_not_a_legislative_majority)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Modi's_party_not_a_legislative_majority)

content:
 
<p>
Modi's domination of India has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/05/rahul-gandhi-india-opposition-gains-ground-election-modi">suffered
a setback</a>: the Hinduismist party did not win a majority of the legislature itself.  However,
it can still form a government with the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/05/narendra-modi-wins-backing-of-allies-to-form-indian-government">support
of other parties</a>.
<p>
Can the opposition coalition, not in government, alter Modi's repression?  If it lacks the
strength to do that now, will its supporters be patient until the next election and not give up?

<p>
 


title: Another Labour MP running as Independent
uri: Another-Labour-MP-running-as-Independent
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Another_Labour_MP_running_as_Independent)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Another_Labour_MP_running_as_Independent)

content:
 
<p>
Faiza Shaheen, a previous Labour candidate for Parliament
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/05/how-can-they-treat-people-like-this-faiza-shaheen-on-labour-and-why-shes-running-as-an-independent">who was just
canceled</a>,
is running as an independent.
<p>
The issues over which she was canceled seem like quibbles to me, and some were statements she
made ten years ago.  I probably don't agree with her 100% regarding Israel and Palestine, but I
think I could vote for her.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Cut_public_services,_boost_NYPD__NYC)
title: Cut public services, boost NYPD? NYC
uri: Cut-public-services-boost-NYPD-NYC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Cut_public_services,_boost_NYPD__NYC)
content:
 
<p>
New York-Mayor Adams wants to cut the city's budget for useful
services such as public libraries, and put the money into
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/06/05/nyc-eric-adams-cop-city-police-training/">a sort of
Cop City</a> training center for uniformed <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Some_big_vote-suppression_plans,_USA)
title: Some big vote-suppression plans, USA
uri: Some-big-vote-suppression-plans-USA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Some_big_vote-suppression_plans,_USA)
content:
 
<p>
Georgia Republicans are
<a href="https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-plan-for-2024-taken-from-kkk-plan-of-1946/">arranging
systematically</a> to challenge the voting credentials of large numbers of black voters, just as
the KKK did in 1946.

<p>
 


title: Elon Musk trying to install a US govt.
uri: Elon-Musk-trying-to-install-a-US-govt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Elon_Musk_trying_to_install_a_US_govt.)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Elon_Musk_trying_to_install_a_US_govt.)

content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: Billionaires including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Michael Milken and Steven Mnuchin
are working together to make <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> president again.  Reich contends that their aim is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/03/billionaires-for-trump-presidential-election">to
roll back democracy itself</a>.
<p>
Musk has x-terminated the truth on <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#extwitter">Ex-Twitter</a> by repeatedly endorsing <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter's</a> lies about
the 2020 election.  That makes him systematically and fundamentally dishonest, like the
corrupter himself.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Working peoples' vs billionaires
uri: Urgent-Working-peoples-vs-billionaires
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Urgent:_Working_peoples'_vs_billionaires)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Urgent:_Working_peoples'_vs_billionaires)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-side-with-working-people-not-billionaires-and-big-business?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-patriotic-millionaires&source=group-patriotic-millionaires">call on Congress</a>
to side with working people, not  billionaires and Big Business.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Urgent:_The_FOREST_Act_for_forests)
title: Urgent: The FOREST Act for forests
uri: Urgent-The-FOREST-Act-for-forests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Urgent:_The_FOREST_Act_for_forests)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=55504&tag=email_blast:131444&supporter_KEY=229474">call
on your senators</a> to support the FOREST Act, which would ban imports made with products of
illegally deforested land.
<p>
See
<a href="https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/us-congress-reintroduces-bill-restrict-imports-linked-illegal-deforestation">the
detailed, general issue</a>.
<p>
To sign without running nonfree
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">JavaScript</a> code from the web site,
use <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">the Salsalabs workaround</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Protect birth control and abortion
uri: Urgent-Protect-birth-control-and-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Urgent:_Protect_birth_control_and_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#7_June_2024_(Urgent:_Protect_birth_control_and_abortion)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-protect-abortion-and-reproductive-freedom-repeal-the-comstock-act-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-just-strategy&source=group-just-strategy">call
on Congress</a> to protect abortion and birth control by repealing the Comstock Act.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Young_child_hunger)
title: Young child hunger
uri: Young-child-hunger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Young_child_hunger)
content:
 
<p>
*One young child
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jun/06/one-young-child-in-four-at-risk-of-irreversible-harm-due-to-restricted-diet-un-report-says">in
[every four</a> in the world] at risk of ‘irreversible’ harm due to restricted diet, UN report
says.*  These children rarely get vegetables, let alone meat.
<p>
Local shortages of food are one of the main causes, but heavy marketing of non-nutritious foods
to parents who don't know what is bad about them is also a cause.  In Gaza, the Israeli siege is
the main cause.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Starvation_in_Gaza_now)
title: Starvation in Gaza now
uri: Starvation-in-Gaza-now
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Starvation_in_Gaza_now)
content:
 
<p>
*Starvation already causing mass death and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/05/starvation-already-causing-mass-death-and-lasting-harm-in-gaza-agencies-say">lasting
harm in Gaza</a>, agencies say.*
<p>
Children that live through this may suffer lifelong damage from their current malnutrition.

<p>
 


title: On banning fossil-fuel advertising, UN
uri: On-banning-fossil-fuel-advertising-UN
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(On_banning_fossil-fuel_advertising,_UN)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(On_banning_fossil-fuel_advertising,_UN)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/05/antonio-guterres-un-chief-fossil-fuels-advertising">Secretary
General Guterres</a> calls for a global ban on fossil-fuel advertising.
<p>
I support the idea.  The challenge is to overcome the domination of the
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a> and their PR funds.
<p>
Perhaps this suggests a new idea for climate defense protests:
covering or tearing off the advertisements for fossil fuels and the
products that use them, and the companies involved with those.
<p>
That
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_May_2024_(oil_companies_report_fossil_fuels)">should
include greenwashing</a>, whose message is, "Forget about our enormous fossil fuel business,
please associate us with our comparatively small renewable electricity business."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Covert_marketing,_fast_food,_AUS)
title: Covert marketing, fast food, AUS
uri: Covert-marketing-fast-food-AUS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Covert_marketing,_fast_food,_AUS)
content:
 
<p>
*Fast food chains are successfully influencing news outlets [in Australia] to produce "covert
marketing" for their brands,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/05/news-outlets-producing-covert-marketing-for-mcdonalds-kfc-and-dominos-study-finds">a
new study</a> has found.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Widening_targets_on_both_sides,_UKR)
title: Widening targets on both sides, UKR
uri: Widening-targets-on-both-sides-UKR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Widening_targets_on_both_sides,_UKR)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/04/french-military-instructors-in-ukraine-a-legitimate-target-russia-says">French
military instructors</a> in Ukraine would be "legitimate target",* according to the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>.
<p>
They should bring anti-aircraft and anti-missile defenses with them so they can protect
themselves if attacked.  These defenses will not escalate the war, since they could not engage
any of the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> except when said Putin forces are attacking them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Urgent:_Tax_the_rich)
title: Urgent: Tax the rich
uri: 2024-06-09-Urgent-Tax-the-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Urgent:_Tax_the_rich)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tax-the-rich-2024-dk/?t=1001&akid=32141%2E96703%2EqKB-7W">call on Congress</a>
to tax the rich.
<p>
Many of America's problems can be corrected by this, both those that
call for spending money and those that involve weakness of democracy.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Urgent:_COP29,_oil_boss_organizer)
title: Urgent: COP29, oil boss organizer
uri: Urgent-COP29-oil-boss-organizer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Urgent:_COP29,_oil_boss_organizer)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.350.org/sign/us-open-letter-cop29/">call on COP29</a> to remove the head of
Azerbaijan's state oil company from the position of its organizer.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Urgent:_Free-software_tax_returns)
title: Urgent: Free-software tax returns
uri: Urgent-Free-software-tax-returns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Urgent:_Free-software_tax_returns)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/petition/sign?sid=10&reset=1">call on the IRS</a>
to make a libre site for filing tax returns.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Urgent:_Sue_big_fossil_fuel)
title: Urgent: Sue big fossil fuel
uri: Urgent-Sue-big-fossil-fuel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#8_June_2024_(Urgent:_Sue_big_fossil_fuel)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-hold-big-fossil-fuel-accountable-for-lying-about-climate-change">call on The Department of Justice</a>
to sue big fossil fuel for denying <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.
<p>
 


title: More intense cyclones may devastate seabirds
uri: More-intense-cyclones-may-devastate-seabirds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(More_intense_cyclones_may_devistate_seabirds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(More_intense_cyclones_may_devistate_seabirds)

content:
 
<p>
*More intense, frequent tropical cyclones <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/06/tropical-cyclone-ilsa-frequency-intensity-storms-climate-crisis-seabirds-bedout-western-australia-aoe">may devastate seabird colonies</a>.*
<p>
Tornadoes in Maryland???  That has not been normal, but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/06/tornado-michigan-heatwave-south-west-extreme-weather">the pattern is
shifting</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Netanyahu_wants_no_peace_in_Gaza)
title: Netanyahu wants no peace in Gaza
uri: Netanyahu-wants-no-peace-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Netanyahu_wants_no_peace_in_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
Reading Netanyahu, a former Israeli official says that he killed a
peace plan that Israel had privately agreed to, because <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/06/biden-end-gaza-war-netanyahu-months-israel">he is
determined not to have peace in Gaza</a>.
<p>
I think the only way Biden can make progress from here is with
pressure that Netanyuahu cannot defy -- such as, to cut off arms
supplies to Israel.  As people in Gaza are suffering death and
permanent damage from the lack of food, Biden must not dither.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Public_services_on_brink_of_collapse)
title: Public services on brink of collapse
uri: Public-services-on-brink-of-collapse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Public_services_on_brink_of_collapse)
content:
 
<p>
*Incoming ministers "will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/07/incoming-ministers-will-face-uk-public-services-on-brink-of-collapse">face UK public services on brink of collapse</a>."*
<p>
It may be necessary to raise taxes to prevent the collapse.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Musk_and_the_Bully%2FCorrupter)
title: Musk and the Bully/Corrupter
uri: Musk-and-the-Bully-Corrupter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Musk_and_the_Bully%2FCorrupter)
content:
 
<p>
Musk increasingly <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-musk-thugocracy">imitates the bully/corrupter's behavior</a> as well
as supporting his politics.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: End support of Israeli atrocities
uri: Urgent-End-support-of-Israeli-atrocities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Urgent:_End_support_of_Israeli_atrocities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Urgent:_End_support_of_Israeli_atrocities)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/rafah-gaza-biden-weapons/?t=1001&akid=32297%2E96703%2EuS7420">call on Biden to end support for the Israeli military's
atrocities</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Protect public servants' retirement
uri: Urgent-Protect-public-servants-retirement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Urgent:_Protect_public_servants'_retirement)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Urgent:_Protect_public_servants'_retirement)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-now-protect-public-servants-retirement?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-sign-now-protect-public-servants-retirement">protect public servants' retirement</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Urgent:_End_corporation_tax_loopholes)
title: Urgent: End corporation tax loopholes
uri: Urgent-End-corporation-tax-loopholes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Urgent:_End_corporation_tax_loopholes)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/trump-tax-cuts-pfizer/?t=1001&akid=32194%2E96703%2EQP9iQ6">get rid of the wrecker's tax cuts and
end tax loopholes for big corporations</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Drug_pollution)
title: Drug pollution
uri: Drug-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Drug_pollution)
content:
 
<p>
Various drugs, some legal and some illegal, used in large quantities
by humans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/06/drug-pollution-wildlife-threat-aoe">get into waterways and alter wildlife</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Deepfake_political_scams,_FB)
title: Deepfake political scams, FB
uri: Deepfake-political-scams-FB
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Deepfake_political_scams,_FB)
content:
 
<p>
Deepfakes displaying politicians and other public figures, clothed
normally, have been
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/08/deepfakes-of-australian-politicians-including-penny-wong-and-katy-gallagher-used-in-investment-scams">used
on Facebook</a> to promote scams.
<p>
I think the crucial issue raised by deepfakes is not nudity.  It is fraud.  False nudity in the
deepfake is one kind of fraud, but the other kinds of fraud are just as bad.  I've called
unauthorized deepfakes the moral equivalent of perjury.
<p>
Thus, rather than criminalizing making nude deepfakes only, I suggest we criminalize making and
showing any sort of deepfake without the subject's permission.
<p>
If you want to show a fictional or satirical picture of a hypothetical action, you can express
the idea just as well with an evidently non-evidential cartoon.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Disloyal_flags_in_high_places,_AZ)
title: Disloyal flags in high places, AZ
uri: Disloyal-flags-in-high-places-AZ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Disloyal_flags_in_high_places,_AZ)
content:
 
<p>
*[Corrupter's] ally Kari Lake gave
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/07/kari-lake-confederate-flag">speech in front of Confederate flag</a>.*
<p>
Fascists, Nazis, Confederates &mdash; it seems that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> and his followers endorse all
of them almost indiscriminately.  Why so nonselective about it?  All they have in common is
their rejection of the ideals of the United States.
<p>
I think that's exactly the point: that <!---->the corrupter seeks to ridicule those ideals by
encouraging any and all sorts of disloyalty to them.
<p>
Loyal Americans should warn Kari Lake that they will drive her out to Texas, as their
predecessors did to the last band of Confederate supporters to invade Arizona.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(A_Boeing_quality_quash)
title: A Boeing quality quash
uri: A-Boeing-quality-quash
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(A_Boeing_quality_quash)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/05/boeing-whistleblowers-safety">[Boeing
employee] Roy Irvin</a> alleges he was reprimanded as "insubordinate" for flagging issues on 787
Dreamliner planes.*

<p>
 


title: Nigel Farage splashed by milkshake, UK
uri: Nigel-Farage-splashed-by-milkshake-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Nigel_Farage_splashed_by_milkshake,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Nigel_Farage_splashed_by_milkshake,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
A Briton has been charged with
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/05/woman-charged-after-milkshake-thrown-at-nigel-farage">"criminal
damage" for throwing a milkshake</a> at right-wing extremist politician Nigel Farage.
<p>
I am surprised that superficial contact with a milkshake is considered to cause damage.  {-;
Perhaps McDonald's milkshakes contain toxic substances that are absorbed through the skin.  Good
for him that he did not consume it! ;-}

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Urgent:_Zero-waste_delivery_by_Amazon)
title: Urgent: Zero-waste delivery by Amazon
uri: Urgent-Zero-waste-delivery-by-Amazon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Urgent:_Zero-waste_delivery_by_Amazon)
content:
 
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://act.stand.earth/page/51302/petition/1">call on Amazon</a> to implement
zero-waste delivery.
<p>
Of course, we shouldn't buy from <a href="/amazon.html">Amazon</a> either way, and I don't; but
that is no reason not to sign.
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(When_ownership_is_questionable,_ROU)
title: When "ownership" is questionable, ROU
uri: When-ownership-is-questionable-ROU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(When_ownership_is_questionable,_ROU)
content:
 
<p>
Romania asks Louis Vuitton to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/article/2024/jun/05/louis-vuitton-accused-of-cultural-appropriation-over-romanian-blouse">give
credit to the Romanian design</a> that inspired one of his latest fashion products.
<p>
The <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/cultural-appropriation.html">campaign to condemn and
eliminate</a> "cultural appropriation" is unjust and wrong, because learning from other people
and imitating them is what culture is all about, and this is how culture develops.
<p>
However, asking the imitator to give credit is no obstacle to cultural
development, and I think it is a reasonable request.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Israeli_plot_intercepted,_9th_circuit)
title: Israeli plot intercepted, 9th circuit
uri: Israeli-plot-intercepted-9th-circuit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Israeli_plot_intercepted,_9th_circuit)
content:
 
<p>
*A Federal Judge Visited Israel on a Junket Designed to Sway Public Opinion. Now He's Hearing
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/06/05/israel-trip-federal-judge-ryan-nelson-recuse/">a
Gaza Case</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Supreme Justices' Trump-cases recusals
uri: Urgent-Supreme-Justices-Trump-cases-recusals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Urgent:_Supreme_Justices'_Trump-cases_recusals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Urgent:_Supreme_Justices'_Trump-cases_recusals)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/petition_garland_recuse_alito_thomas/">call on
Attorney General Merrick</a> Garland to require Justices Thomas and Alito to recuse themselves
from cases about <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#insurrectionist">the insurrectionist</a>.


<p>
 


title: Urgent: Ind. sues EPA over coal limits
uri: Urgent-Ind-sues-EPA-over-coal-limits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Urgent:_Ind._sues_EPA_over_coal_limits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Urgent:_Ind._sues_EPA_over_coal_limits)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the
<a href="https://actnow.evergreenaction.com/page/68024/action/1?ea.tracking.id=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=100clean&utm_content=EM+240531+-+ADVO+-+EEI+utility+CEO+accountability+-+all+-+SplitB">Edison
Electric Institute to stop suing</a> the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> to keep coal polluting.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Right_and_left_wing_devt,_EU)
title: Right and left wing devt, EU
uri: Right-and-left-wing-devt-EU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Right_and_left_wing_devt,_EU)
content:
 
<p>
*The EU is braced for a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/06/the-eu-is-braced-for-a-rise-in-the-hard-right-but-will-the-centre-normalise-it">rise
in the hard right [wing]</a>.  But will the centre normalise it?*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(US_as_a_democracy_as_per_Putin)
title: US as a democracy as per Putin
uri: US-as-a-democracy-as-per-Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(US_as_a_democracy_as_per_Putin)
content:
 
<p>
Putin, a repeated supporter of <!---->the corrupter, claims that the felony conviction of the
corrupter proves that the US is failing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/05/trump-conviction-russia-putin-response">as
a democracy</a>.
<p>
That is backwards, of course.  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter's</a> conviction shows that the US is trying to defend
its democracy from a campaign to corrupt it.  Putin supports that campaign and lies much as its
members do.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Nuclear_options,_UK)
title: Nuclear options, UK
uri: Nuclear-options-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Nuclear_options,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Jeremy Corbyn argues for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/05/stockpiling-nuclear-weapons-national-security-keir-starmer-jeremy-corbyn">aiming
for nuclear disarmament</a> rather than nuclear weapon buildup.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Accountability for Israel in Gaza
uri: Urgent-Accountability-for-Israel-in-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Urgent:_Accountability_for_Israel_in_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Urgent:_Accountability_for_Israel_in_Gaza)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-to-congress-and-the-biden-administration-stop-shielding-israel-from-accountability-for-war-crimes?nowrapper=true">call
on Congress</a> and the Biden administration to stop shielding Israel from accountability for
war crimes.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Unsafe vagueness in abortion decisions
uri: Unsafe-vagueness-in-abortion-decisions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Unsafe_vagueness_in_abortion_decisions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Unsafe_vagueness_in_abortion_decisions)

content:
 
<p>
*US
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/07/state-abortion-ban-exemptions-uncertainty">state
abortion ban exemptions</a> aren’t vague by accident. Uncertainty is the point.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Workers_for_Uber_and_Lyft,_MN)
title: Workers for Uber and Lyft, MN
uri: Workers-for-Uber-and-Lyft-MN
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(Workers_for_Uber_and_Lyft,_MN)
content:
 
<p>
Minneapolis made Uber and Lyft agree to pay workers more and improve some other
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/07/uber-lyft-wage-increase-big-tech-win">working
conditions</a>.
<p>
However, this does nothing to reduce those companies power over drivers, nor to reduce their
unjust treatment of passengers (identifying them and requiring them to run nonfree software).
<p>
If I am me, I will continue to refuse to do business with <a href="/uber.html">Uber</a>
and <a href="/lyft.html">Lyft</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(US_justice_system_assults)
title: US justice system assaults
uri: US-justice-system-assaults
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#9_June_2024_(US_justice_system_assults)
content:
 
<p>
*<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">The fascist</a> leader
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/07/trump-justice-department">plots
capture of DoJ</a> in renewed assault on US justice system.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Columbia_censorship)
title: Columbia censorship
uri: Columbia-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Columbia_censorship)
content:
 
<p>
The Columbia Law Review editors (students) prevailed in their
confrontation with the board of directors (not students) who shut down
the magazine's web site <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/09/columbia-law-review-rabea-eghbariah-palestine-censorship-controversy">in order to censor Rabea Eghbariah's article</a>.
The site is back up and the article remains on it.
<p>
I salute this victory for academic freedom.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Cheaters)
title: Cheaters
uri: Cheaters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Cheaters)
content:
 
<p>
Vice President Harris told the public how bad the corrupter really is:
"<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/09/kamala-harris-trump-conviction-cheaters">Cheaters don’t like getting caught</a>."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Microsoft_Recall_concerns)
title: Microsoft Recall concerns
uri: Microsoft-Recall-concerns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Microsoft_Recall_concerns)
content:
 
<p>
Microsoft bowed to public criticism and said that <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns">the new "take a
screenshot of all output" feature would be disabled by default</a>.
<p>
That's nice, but since Windows is proprietary software, Microsoft
could <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">secretly insert any sort of snooping feature at any time</a> without
informing users.  Basically, a nonfree program cannot be trusted.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Economics_and_morality)
title: Economics and morality
uri: Economics-and-morality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Economics_and_morality)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich talks about the <a href="https://invidio.us/watch?v=9j3PCm1izjI">inseparability of economics and morality</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_((Satire)_3_of_every_procedure)
title: (Satire) 3 of every procedure
uri: (Satire)-3-of-every-procedure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_((Satire)_3_of_every_procedure)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *&hellip; wealthy patient Duncan Barrow reportedly ordered
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/wealthy-hospital-patient-orders-3-of-every-procedure-1851515133">three of each procedure upon his admittance to the facility Friday</a>.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then right-click
and select item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as lynx
that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Landslide_likelihood_increasing)
title: Landslide likelihood increasing
uri: Landslide-likelihood-increasing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Landslide_likelihood_increasing)
content:
 
<p>
*As climate change <a href="https://www.levernews.com/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-disaster/?attribution_id=666122ff4530fb000143572c&attribution_type=post">increases the likelihood of deadly landslides</a>,
cities like Juneau are stuck between a rock and a hard place.*
<p>
Or, rather, between a rock and a muddy place.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Election Worker and Polling Place Protection Act
uri: Urgent-Election-Worker-and-Polling-Place-Protection-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Urgent:_Election_Worker_and_Polling_Place_Protection_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Urgent:_Election_Worker_and_Polling_Place_Protection_Act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/protect-election-workers-from-threats-of-violence?ref=mGRE-gQ&link_id=1&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-sign-and-send-a-petition-to-congress-dont-allow-financial-advisors-to-act-against-the-best-interests-of-their-clients-protect-president-bidens-fiduciary-rule-2&email_referrer=email_2342969&email_subject=sign-the-petition-protect-election-workers-from-threats-of-violence">pass the Election Worker and Polling
Place Protection Act</a>.

<p>
 


title: 109 Palestinians killed to rescue 4 hostages
uri: 109-Palestinians-killed-to-rescue-4-hostages
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(109_Palestinians_killed_to_rescue_4_hostages)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(109_Palestinians_killed_to_rescue_4_hostages)

content:
 
<p>
An Israeli military operation rescued four hostages <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/09/israel-gaza-hostages-rescue-eu-outrage">at the cost of
killing 109 Palestinians</a>.
<p>
It is not easy to tell how many of the 109 Palestinians killed were
HAMAS fighters and how many were civilians, but at least dozens were
civilians.
<p>
If HAMAS set up a military base in the middle of civilians, that
violated the rules of war -- in effect, using those civilians as human
shields.
<p>
Or it could be that the place was not full of civilians until they
moved there fleeing Israel's bombing elsewhere in Gaza.  In that case,
Israel would be responsible for driving them into harm's way.
<p>
In either case, their lives do not become worthless because of their
situation.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Urgent:_FHA_energy_standards)
title: Urgent: FHA energy standards
uri: Urgent-FHA-energy-standards
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Urgent:_FHA_energy_standards)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/fhfa-backed-mortgages?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-a-huge-step-to-save-consumers-money-and-reduce-carbon-emissions">Federal Housing Finance Agency to Require
Modern Energy Efficiency Standards for All New Homes with FHFA-backed
Mortgages</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Reject face recognition in schools
uri: Urgent-Reject-face-recognition-in-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Urgent:_Reject_face_recognition_in_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Urgent:_Reject_face_recognition_in_schools)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the Department of Education E and local school
boards to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-the-department-of-education-ban-facial-recognition-in-schools?nowrapper=true">reject face recognition in schools</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Judge Cannon's rescue from corrupter's case
uri: Urgent-Judge-Cannon-s-rescue-from-corrupter-s-case
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Urgent:_Judge_Cannon's_rescue_from_corrupter's_case)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Urgent:_Judge_Cannon's_rescue_from_corrupter's_case)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Judge Aileen Cannon to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-judge-aileen-cannon-must-recuse-herself-from-trumps-case-5?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-bowers-news-media-main-list&source=2024Cannon_BNM">recuse herself from the
corrupter's secret documents case</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Urgent:_global_heating)
title: Urgent: global heating
uri: Urgent-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Urgent:_global_heating)
content:
 
<p>
Everyone: Oppose the right-wing campaign <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-no-you-cannot-ignore-climate-change?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-standearth&source=2024Ignore_SE">to disregard global heating</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Forgotten_lessons_of_history)
title: Forgotten lessons of history
uri: Forgotten-lessons-of-history
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#12_June_2024_(Forgotten_lessons_of_history)
content:
 
<p>
Arguing that Putin won't stop with Ukraine; his ambitions will lead
towards bigger conflict.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/08/putin-war-ukraine-forgotten-lessons-of-history-europe">The article compares Russia and China today
with the Germany and Japan of 1938 -- and Ukraine today with
the Czechoslovakia of 1938.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Climate_litigation_delayed)
title: Climate litigation delayed
uri: Climate-litigation-delayed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Climate_litigation_delayed)
content:
 
<p>
*Supreme court ruling <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/10/supreme-court-big-oil-biden-administration">delays climate litigation big oil has sought to thwart</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Millions of citizens lack document access
uri: Millions-of-citizens-lack-document-access
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Millions_of_citizens_lack_document_access)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Millions_of_citizens_lack_document_access)

content:
 
<p>
*Millions of US voters lack <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/12/us-voters-citizenship-brennan-center-study">access to documents to prove citizenship</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Kroger_strike_plan)
title: Kroger strike plan
uri: Kroger-strike-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Kroger_strike_plan)
content:
 
<p>
Workers at one of the Kroger supermarket chains <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/12/kroger-food-4-less-strike-vote">are planning to strike</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Political_donation_ban)
title: Political donation ban
uri: Political-donation-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Political_donation_ban)
content:
 
<p>
South Australia will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/12/south-australia-introduces-world-leading-bill-to-ban-political-donations-from-elections">ban donations to political campaigns and parties</a>.
It will provide campaign funds to all the candidates and parties.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(UK_Green_Party_manifesto)
title: UK Green Party manifesto
uri: 2024-06-15-UK-Green-Party-manifesto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(UK_Green_Party_manifesto)
content:
 
<p>
UK Green Party calls for *<a href="UK Green Party calls for *wealth levy, rent controls, house-building,
and water and energy firm nationalisation.*">wealth levy, rent controls, house-building,
and water and energy firm nationalisation</a>.*
<p>
Their plans for increasing taxes will fall *mainly on wealthy people*.

<p>
 


title: Israel and Hamas both committed war crimes
uri: Israel-and-Hamas-both-committed-war-crimes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Israel_and_Hamas_both_committed_war_crimes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Israel_and_Hamas_both_committed_war_crimes)

content:
 
<p>
*Israel and Hamas have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/12/israel-hamas-gaza-un-ceasefire-plan">both committed war crimes since 7 October</a>, says
 [the UN Human Rights Council].*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Mozilla_Firefox's_censorship)
title: Mozilla Firefox's censorship
uri: Mozilla-Firefox-s-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Mozilla_Firefox's_censorship)
content:
 
<p>
Mozilla has <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/06/12/mozilla-firefox-russia-censorship-blocked/">blocked users in Russia from loading several
censorship-bypassing add-ons into Firefox</a>.
<p>
I am somewhat puzzled by this.  Why would Mozilla want to do this?
<p>
Also, why would it be effective?  I understand it, you can load an
add-on into Firefox if you can access a page where it is distributed.
I also don't see what threat Russia could make against Firefox that
could make Mozilla comply with this demand.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(Shepherd_killed_in_West_Bank)
title: Shepherd killed in West Bank
uri: Shepherd-killed-in-West-Bank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(Shepherd_killed_in_West_Bank)
content:
 
<p>
An Israeli shepherd was killed in the West Bank.
<a href="https://www.972mag.com/pogroms-west-bank-soldiers-settlers/">In revenge</a>, Israeli
"settlers" set cars and houses on fire as well as shooting many Palestinians one by one.
<p>
Both attacks were acts of terrorism, but the "settlers" cannot justify their terrorism by
pointing to the Palestinians' terrorism.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(Violent_crime_decline,_US)
title: Violent crime decline, US
uri: Violent-crime-decline-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(Violent_crime_decline,_US)
content:
 
<p>
*Violent crime in the US
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/violent-crime-rate-data-decline">dropped
by 15%</a> in the first three months of the year, new figures have shown, the latest evidence in
a broader decline of crime across the country that has occurred over the past year.*
<p>
Murders, and reported rapes, decreased by 25%.  Robberies decreased by 17%.
<p>
I expect this is due to improvement in the economy for most Americans.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(Security_council_agrees_on_Gaza_plan)
title: Security council agrees on Gaza plan
uri: Security-council-agrees-on-Gaza-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(Security_council_agrees_on_Gaza_plan)
content:
 
<p>
*UN security council endorses
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/10/un-security-council-us-gaza-ceasefire">US-backed</a>
hostages-for-ceasefire Gaza deal.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(The_America_Gen_Z_sees)
title: Gen Z visions of 2024 elections, USA
uri: Gen-Z-visions-of-2024-elections-USA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(The_America_Gen_Z_sees)
content:
 
<p>
Why young American adults see America's
<a href="https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/if-youre-z-heres-what-you-see">social and economic
systems</a> as carrying them into disaster, despite favorable short-term economic trends.

<p>
 


title: Not accountable to account holders, FB
uri: Not-accountable-to-account-holders-FB
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(Not_accountable_to_account_holders,_FB)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(Not_accountable_to_account_holders,_FB)

content:
 
<p>
If your Facebook account gets suspended for bogus reasons, Facebook
will delete it after 30 days, and gives you
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/11/my-facebook-profile-was-hacked-but-all-the-platform-offered-was-a-faceless-void">no
way to ask the company for help</a> with the problem in the mean time.
<p>
If you decide to be used by Facebook, at the very least assume that
everything in that account could disappear any day.  To be safe, you
should back up everything important from the account on <em>your own
computer</em>.  (Does Facebook make that possible?  I am happy to say
I have never been a <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#used">used of Facebook</a>.)

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(Social_media_chat_botted,_FB)
title: Social media chat botted, FB
uri: Social-media-chat-botted-FB
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(Social_media_chat_botted,_FB)
content:
 
<p>
Bullshit generators have been hooked up to Facebook and Instagram.  In
<a href="https://theconversation.com/ai-chatbots-are-intruding-into-online-communities-where-people-are-trying-to-connect-with-other-humans-229473">some
cases they post</a> bullshit in discussion groups, pretending to be humans.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(New_eqpt_measures_air_pollution,_LA)
title: New eqpt measures air pollution, LA
uri: New-eqpt-measures-air-pollution-LA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(New_eqpt_measures_air_pollution,_LA)
content:
 
<p>
*Air in Louisiana's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/louisiana-cancer-alley-air-pollution-new-study">"Cancer
Alley"</a> likely more toxic than previously thought.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(Banks'_risk-mgmnt_failures,_Amazonia)
title: Banks' risk-mgmnt failures, Amazonia
uri: Banks-risk-mgmnt-failures-Amazonia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#13_June_2024_(Banks'_risk-mgmnt_failures,_Amazonia)
content:
 
<p>
*World's top banks
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/11/worlds-top-banks-greenwashing-their-role-in-destruction-of-the-amazon">"greenwashing
their role</a> in destruction of the Amazon".*

<p>
 


title: How Hush-money-verdict attacks amplify
uri: How-Hush-money-verdict-attacks-amplify
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Hush-money_verdict_attacks_amplifying)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Hush-money_verdict_attacks_amplifying)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/trump-republicans-justice-system-attacks">Ex-prosecutors
and historians warn</a> that Republicans' parroting of ex-president's wild allegations of
political bias could erode trust and lead to violence.*
<p>
Eroding trust in anything that he considers a rival is his purpose.  And while the claim is not
true now, he intends, if he wins or steals the election, to make it so. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/trump-project-2025-wrecking-ball">He
plans to pervert the US justice system</a> to imprison his political enemies, as part of Project
2025.
<p>
The US justice system is in fact untrustworthy for
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Flint_lead_poisoning)">defendants who belong to disprivileged
groups</a>,                     
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_(Imprisonment_through_false_testimony)">and
for poor people</a> since they can't afford good lawyers.  But <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> is not at risk for
this: he is a white male, and even if he may theoretically be bankrupt due to court judgments,
still has good lawyers.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Invasive_runner_bamboo,_UK)
title: Invasive "runner" bamboo, UK
uri: Invasive-runner-bamboo-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Invasive_runner_bamboo,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Some varieties of bamboo spread almost irresistibly and can
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/11/big-british-bamboo-crisis-invaded-my-beautiful-home">destroy houses from underground</a>.
<p>
Could we wipe them out, in the countries they don't belong in, by
releasing a sufficient number of pandas? 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#11_September_2019_(Panda_politics)">China
only leases them</a>, but it might be possible to buy unrestricted
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2024-jan-apr.html#22_March_2024_(giant_pandas_adelaide_zoo)">pandas from Taiwan</a>.

<p>
 


title: How Cherán beat the Avocado cartel, MEX
uri: How-Cherán-beat-the-Avocado-cartel-MEX
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(How_Cherán_beat_the_Avocado_cartel,_MEX)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(How_Cherán_beat_the_Avocado_cartel,_MEX)

content:
 
<p>
In Mexico, growing avocados is so lucrative that cartels fight over
land to grow them, as
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/11/inside-mexico-anti-avocado-militias">they
cut down forests</a>.
<p>
It amazes me that this happens for a product that is not illegal.
<p>
I don't think this would happen for any of the widely used illegal
drugs, though.  The sheer volume consumed would not be enough.

<p>
 


title: Alito's religious bias against abortion
uri: Alito-s-religious-bias-against-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Alito's_religious_bias_against_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Alito's_religious_bias_against_abortion)

content:
 
<p>
Alito admitted at an organization dinner that
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/alitos-admission">his vote to overturn Roe v
Wade</a> was part of an overall campaign to impose his religion on the US.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Hostage_rescue_operation,_Gaza)
title: Hostage rescue operation, Gaza
uri: Hostage-rescue-operation-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Hostage_rescue_operation,_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
The rescue of hostages from Gaza
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/go/56286">started out clean</a>, but developed into a
street battle.  That is when the civilians were killed.
<p>
This suggests that most of those killed were civilians.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Hostage_rescue_carnage,_Gaza)
title: Hostage rescue carnage, Gaza
uri: Hostage-rescue-carnage-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Hostage_rescue_carnage,_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
Testimony of witnesses to the attack on Nuseirat refugee camp, in which
the Israeli
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/06/10/nuseirat-massacre-israel-hostage-rescue-gaza/">army
killed at least 274</a> Palestinians to rescue four hostages.
<p>
The number of killed that were civilians was almost certainly over 100, and likely considerably
more.  But I think I can make a better estimate.
<p>
I think that "children" means minors.  Most minors there were probably civilians, thought some
of the older ones may have been HAMAS fighters.  I would expect that HAMAS, being Islamist,
would not recruit women as fighters (can anyone tell me whether that is true?), so it would
follow that the 57 women killed were all civilians.
<p>
I expect roughly equal numbers of men and women among the civilians, since they were in and
around their homes.  That would suggest there were around 160-170 civilians killed, and maybe
100 HAMAS fighters.
<p>
It is therefore likely that most of the Palestinians in the area were civilians.
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


title: Heat takes out ralliers, Las Vegas
uri: Heat-takes-out-ralliers-Las-Vegas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Heat_takes_out_those_rallying,_Las_Vegas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Heat_takes_out_those_rallying,_Las_Vegas)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/10/trump-rallies-extreme-heat">Fanatical
supporters</a> of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> regularly get heat stroke at his rallies, because of increasing
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>, but it doesn't occur to them that we should stop drilling for all and making it
hotter.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Lawmakers'_stock_trades_as_indicator)
title: Lawmakers' stock trades as indicator
uri: Lawmakers-stock-trades-as-indicator
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Lawmakers'_stock_trades_as_indicator)
content:
 
<p>
*Stock traders are trying to
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/06/06/nx-s1-4974720/congress-stock-trades-profits">beat the
market</a> &mdash; by copying lawmakers [stock trades].*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(IEA_on_clean-energy_investment_rates)
title: IEA on clean-energy investment rates
uri: IEA-on-clean-energy-investment-rates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(IEA_on_clean-energy_investment_rates)
content:
 
<p>
*Investment in clean energy likely to be double figure for fossil fuels in 2024, IEA says
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/06/investment-in-clean-energy-likely-to-be-double-figure-for-fossil-fuels-in-2024-iea-says">[; however,]
oil and gas spending</a> still too high to meet climate goals.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(New_pun)
title: New pun
uri: 2024-06-15-New-pun
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(New_pun)
content:
 
<p>
New pun:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="https://stallman.org/puns.html#tylenol">What do you need Tylenol for?</a>

<p>
 


title: ICC: war crimes against civilians, RUS
uri: ICC-war-crimes-against-civilians-RUS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(ICC:_war_crimes_against_civilians,_RUS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(ICC:_war_crimes_against_civilians,_RUS)

content:
 
<p>
*Russia accused of "deliberate"
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/13/russia-accused-of-deliberate-starvation-tactics-in-mariupol-in-submission-to-icc">starvation
tactics in Mariupol</a> in submission to ICC.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(John_Deere_farmout,_MEX)
title: John Deere farm-out, MEX
uri: John-Deere-farm-out-MEX
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(John_Deere_farmout,_MEX)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/joe-biden-john-deere-mass-layoffs">Biden should
put up a fight</a> as John Deere Inc. moves US factory jobs to Mexico.
<p>
John Deere also
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(farmer_dealer_ftc_complaint)">mistreats
the purchasers</a> of its tractors: it designs them with nonfree software that the farmers
cannot change or replace, and which snoops on them.

<p>
 


title: Green Party as labourer's genuine rep
uri: Green-Party-as-labourer-s-genuine-rep
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Green_Party_as_labourer's_genuine_rep)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Green_Party_as_labourer's_genuine_rep)

content:
 
<p>
George Monbiot: Britons should respond to Labour's "anticipatory betrayal"
by turning to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/12/green-party-manifesto-labour-wealth-tax-public-services-keir-starmer">the
Green Party</a>.

<p>
 


title: Hunter Biden found guilty: the responses
uri: Hunter-Biden-found-guilty-the-responses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Hunter_Biden_found_guilty:_the_responses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Hunter_Biden_found_guilty:_the_responses)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/12/trump-slam-dunk-hunter-biden-trial-verdict">Biden's
dignified acceptance</a> of the jury's conviction of his son may help show <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> for what
he is.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: How to get Israel to cease fire
uri: Urgent-How-to-get-Israel-to-cease-fire
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Urgent:_How_to_get_Israel_to_cease_fire)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Urgent:_How_to_get_Israel_to_cease_fire)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to
<a href="https://act.ourrevolution.com/signup/school-airstrike-gaza/">cut off arms
deliveries</a> to Israel unless it accepts a permanent cease fire in Gaza.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a> and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Urgent:_How_to_end_Citizens_United)
title: Urgent: How to end "Citizens" United
uri: Urgent-How-to-end-Citizens-United
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Urgent:_How_to_end_Citizens_United)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/fight-back-against-big-moneys-influence-overturn-citizens-united-and-pass-the-disclose-act-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=060524-citizens-united">call
on Congress</a> to end the "Citizens" United era by passing the Freedom to Vote Act and the
DISCLOSE Act.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Teachers carrying guns in school
uri: Urgent-Teachers-carrying-guns-in-school
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Urgent:_Teachers_carrying_guns_in_school)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Urgent:_Teachers_carrying_guns_in_school)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://civicshout.com/p/don-t-arm-teachers?ref=_CZbh7E">call on state legislatures</a>
not to allow teachers to carry guns in school.
<p>
The myth that a "good guy with a gun" will protect people from a murderer with a gun is true
often on Have Gun Will Travel, but that is fiction.  In real life
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#2_June_2022_(Uvalde_thugs_took_40_minutes_to_shoot_killer)">it
is rarely effective</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Urgent:_Right_to_Contraception_Act)
title: Urgent: Right to Contraception Act
uri: Urgent-Right-to-Contraception-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#14_June_2024_(Urgent:_Right_to_Contraception_Act)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and ask per to sign the discharge petition for the Right to
Contraception Act.
<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Urgent:_The_Voting_Rights_Act)
title: Urgent: The Voting Rights Act
uri: Urgent-The-Voting-Rights-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Urgent:_The_Voting_Rights_Act)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-judges-to-uphold-the-voting-rights-act">call on
judges</a> to uphold the Voting Rights Act.

<p>
 


title: Illicit Israeli influence campaign, US
uri: Illicit-Israeli-influence-campaign-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Illicit_Israeli_influence_campaign,_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Illicit_Israeli_influence_campaign,_US)

content:
 
<p>
*Israel
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/technology/israel-campaign-gaza-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk0.2nSi.JWZomzNPn-bR&smid=url-share">Secretly
Targets U.S. Lawmakers</a> With Influence Campaign on Gaza War.* It was paid for by Israel’s
Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund
Israel’s military.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Libertarian_manifesto,_US)
title: Libertarian Party manifesto, US
uri: Libertarian-Party-manifesto-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Libertarian_manifesto,_US)
content:
 
<p>
*The Libertarian [sic] Party's controversial
<a href="https://reason.com/video/2024/06/08/a-power-struggle-consumes-the-libertarian-party/">plan is to "stop Biden"</a>
and extract promises from [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#insurrectionist">the insurrectionist</a>] along the way.*
<p>
This plan demonstrates a total lack of value for civil liberties, which
<!---->the insurrectionist
has announced his intention to crush.  But this plan makes the party cynical as well, which
previously it was not.
<p>
It is also utterly foolish to think that a promise from 
<!---->the insurrectionist
(who is also <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a>)
will be kept.  Once democracy is crushed, if you're not a billionaire he won't
hesitate to break his promise to you.
<p>
I have contended for years that that party, and its political stance, did not merit the name
"libertarian", because its supporters valued reduction of their taxes, and termination of
programs to help the poor and disadvantaged, more highly than they valued liberty.  So I called
them "<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#anti">antisocialist</a>".
<p>
Some of the party's supporters may still be 
<!---->antisocialists, but the party itself deserves
for a harsher name than that.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Supreme_Court_on_abortion_pills)
title: Supreme Court on abortion pills
uri: Supreme-Court-on-abortion-pills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Supreme_Court_on_abortion_pills)
content:
 
<p>
*The [US Supreme Court] unanimously rejected the mifepristone case on technical grounds. Their
ruling is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/14/supreme-court-abortion-pill-ruling">not
the victory it may seem</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Alitos_vow_revenge_for_criticism)
title: Alitos vow revenge for criticism
uri: Alitos-vow-revenge-for-criticism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Alitos_vow_revenge_for_criticism)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4714777-justice-alitos-wife-vows-revenge-flag-controversy-secret-recording/">Alito's wife vowed revenge</a>
on the people who criticized Alito for
displaying an upside-down flag, after Jan 6 when that was a symbol of
claiming falsely that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> had won the election.
<p>
Note the typical right-wing thinking, which regards a truthful criticism of a false claim as a
vicious attack that deserves revenge.  If those critics made false claims of their own, revenge
in kind (refuting the false claims) would be possible and legitimate.  But Ms Alito does not
claim that they did so.
<p>
Perhaps, for her, opposing militant Christianitism, and defending the separation of church and
state, is enough grounds to label someone as evil.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Putin_demands_territory_for_peace)
title: Putin demands territory for peace
uri: Putin-demands-territory-for-peace
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Putin_demands_territory_for_peace)
content:
 
<p>
Putin announced that he
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/14/vladimir-putin-issues-fresh-demands-to-ukraine-to-end-war">won't
make peace with Ukraine</a> unless it gives him more territory along with what he has captured.
<p>
This indicates a combination of thinking he can win the war, and some amount of bluster (present
in everything he says).
<p>
The only sensible response is to teach him he must expect to lose.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Person's_pay_vs_their_true_value)
title: Person's pay vs their true value
uri: Person-s-pay-vs-their-true-value
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Person's_pay_vs_their_true_value)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: *Don't be fooled by the myth that people are paid what they're "worth" &mdash;
that the rich <em>deserve</em> their ever-increasing incomes and wealth because they're worth
far more to the economy <em>now</em> than years ago [&hellip;]*
<p>
*The distribution of income and wealth increasingly depends on who has
the
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/debunking-myth-3-the-rich-deserve">power to set the
rules</a> of the game.*
<p>
It is a context of clout, not a contest of productivity.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Labour_touts_economic_growth)
title: Labour touts economic growth
uri: Labour-touts-economic-growth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Labour_touts_economic_growth)
content:
 
<p>
*A
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/13/a-braver-labour-would-call-an-end-to-the-focus-on-growth">braver
Labour would call an end</a> to the focus on growth.*
<p>
Starmer has made up his mind to seek the votes of former Tories.  The only way to make Labour
pay attention to this issue is to elect Greens or Lib Dems, or the independents such as Corbyn
who agree with this.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Phoenix_Police_Dept_as_thugs)
title: Phoenix Police Dept as thugs
uri: Phoenix-Police-Dept-as-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#15_June_2024_(Phoenix_Police_Dept_as_thugs)
content:
 
<p>
*Phoenix [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>] have pattern of violating civil
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/13/phoenix-police-civil-rights-violations">rights
and using excessive force</a>, Justice Department says.*
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Cheng_Lei)
title: Cheng Lei
uri: Cheng-Lei
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Cheng_Lei)
content:
 
<p>
Cheng Lei, formerly a political prisoner in China, has used her prison
experience as the basis for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/13/thanks-for-the-free-rent-cheng-lei-jokes-about-china-detention-in-comedy-debut">stand-up comedy in Australia</a>.
<p>
Cheng Lei is an Australian citizen who was working in China as a journalist for an Australian
organization.  China allowed her to return to Australia.  Chinese who have been political
prisoners in China are often not allowed to leave China.
<p>
Using Eventbrite for access to an event is always bad because signing up using Eventbrite
requires running nonfree software.  Also, it requires identifying yourself.  Those are two
injustices to the attendee; I would not attend a performance if it required me to give my name
to get a ticket.
<p>
In this specific situation, the injustices put some attendees in danger, too.  It would not
surprise me if Chinese <a href="/on-hacking.html">crackers</a> broke into the Eventbrite data
base to find out who attended this performance.  The performers were aware that Chine would try
to identify the attendees; they should have protected their audience from digital identification
as well as from cameras.
<p>
And did they insist on making it possible to pay cash?  As China demonstrates every day, making
people identify themselves to buy things is the foundation of repression.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Analyzing_Labour_Party_platform,_UK)
title: Analyzing Labour party platform, UK
uri: Analyzing-Labour-party-platform-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Analyzing_Labour_Party_platform,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Analyzing the Labour platform: parts sound good, but
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/13/labours-manifesto-panel-verdict-keir-starmer-election">crucial
parts are missing</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Project_2025)
title: Project 2025
uri: Project-2025
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Project_2025)
content:
 
<p>
*[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">The wrecker</a>]'s [planned]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/13/trump-state-department-project-2025-purge">mass
purge of state department</a> likely to sow chaos, US diplomats say.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Aid_delivery_hampered,_ISR)
title: Aid delivery hampered, ISR
uri: Aid-delivery-hampered-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Aid_delivery_hampered,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
*[UNRWA] says [Israeli] authorities are hampering [aid delivery] operations by failing
to grant requests for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/13/unrwa-israel-frequently-preventing-aid-deliveries-gaza">access
permits</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Drug war's damage in Cent. Am. forests
uri: Drug-war-s-damage-in-Cent-Am-forests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Drug_war's_damage_in_Cent._Am._forests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Drug_war's_damage_in_Cent._Am._forests)

content:
 
<p>
*Cocaine traffickers have put two-thirds of Central America's key
habitats for threatened birds under threat,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/12/rare-tropical-birds-central-america-cocaine-drugs-trade-trafficking-deforestation-study-aoe">study
finds</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Online_addictive-feeds_law,_NY)
title: Online addictive-feeds law, NY
uri: Online-addictive-feeds-law-NY
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Online_addictive-feeds_law,_NY)
content:
 
<p>
New York State is about to prohibit communication platforms from
offering user's-history-dependent feeds to
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/09/new-york-moves-to-limit-kids-access-to-addictive-feeds/">users
under age 18</a>.
<p>
I think this policy is very wise, but limiting it to only some users, based on their age, is
misguided.  Millions of adults have been sucked into conspiracy theories and even plots for
insurrections by such systems.  This policy also threatens to lead to requiring a user to show
ID so as to prove per age.
<p>
So the policy should apply to <em>all</em> users regardless of age.
<p>
Instead of basing suggestions on what you have previously looked at, a
platform <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#8_September_2023_(Taking_control_away_from_social_media_sites)">should
make available for download that list</a> , as URLs one per line.  Given that list, you could
process it any way you like to get suggestions, then ask to look at those.
<p>
Please do not use the word "children" or "child" to refer to anyone under age 18.  A 17-year-old
is not a child.  A 13-year-old is a teenager.

<p>
 


title: Four Tops lead singer fiasco, Detroit
uri: Four-Tops-lead-singer-fiasco-Detroit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Four_Tops_lead_singer_fiasco,_Detroit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Four_Tops_lead_singer_fiasco,_Detroit)

content:
 
<p>
Singer who joined the Four Tops in 2019 was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/11/four-tops-alexander-morris-hospital">involuntarily
hospitalized</a> for claiming to be a member of the Four Tops.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Chiquita_Banana_as_terrorist)
title: Chiquita Banana as terrorist
uri: Chiquita-Banana-as-terrorist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Chiquita_Banana_as_terrorist)
content:
 
<p>
A US court convicted Chiquita (the banana company) of paying a
terrorist group (paramilitaries)
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/chiquita-brands-international">to kill some of its
workers</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Toy_gun_return,_fatal_misreading,_WA)
title: Toy gun return, fatal misreading, WA
uri: Toy-gun-return-fatal-misreading-WA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Toy_gun_return,_fatal_misreading,_WA)
content:
 
<p>
*Washington teen returning replica gun to store
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/washington-teen-airsoft-gun-shot-dead">shot
dead by security guard</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(When_voting_about_the_greedy_pricing)
title: When voting about the greedy pricing
uri: When-voting-about-the-greedy-pricing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(When_voting_about_the_greedy_pricing)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: for
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/its-greedflation-stupid-b3c">most US voters, the
most important issue</a> is the high prices that are caused by greedy corporations without much
competition to restrain them, and most voters think that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> will push prices down.

I don't think the wrecker will even try to reduce prices.  He seeks to <!-- --> bamboozle the
public, not to serve it.  Promises from a bullshitter are meaningless.  Lately more billionaires
have been giving their support to the wrecker, so they must not think he will reduce <!--  -->
their unparalleled profits.
<p>
So why does anyone believe that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> will drive prices down?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Fossil_gas_export_terminals)
title: New push for gas export terminals
uri: New-push-for-gas-export-terminals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Fossil_gas_export_terminals)
content:
 
<p>
Some <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> Democrats in Congress are pushing to fund new export terminals for fossil gas,
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/license-to-drill/">provided it is "certified"</a> as emitting
somewhat less greenhouse gas than other fossil gas.
<p>
This is a swindle &mdash; replacing a small but real contribution to climate defense
with mere lip service.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Media-addiction_recovery)
title: Media-addiction recovery
uri: Media-addiction-recovery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Media-addiction_recovery)
content:
 
<p>
Some
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/13/kids-no-iphone-screen-time">teenagers
can recover</a> from antisocial media addiction if they simply don't have a user-manipulating
device to be used by.
<p>
Remember that part of what enables them to manipulate the users so much is that the client
programs of the antisocial media platforms are nonfree software.  Companies design them to be
addictive, and users cannot modify them to be less so.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Republicans_on_the_Big_Oil_lawsuits)
title: Republicans on the Big Oil lawsuits
uri: Republicans-on-the-Big-Oil-lawsuits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Republicans_on_the_Big_Oil_lawsuits)
content:
 
<p>
Republican state attorneys general are working with Big Oil to block
<a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/06/13/big-oil-backs-gop-effort-to-shield-the-industry-from-climate-litigation/">lawsuits over harm to people</a>
caused by oil combustion.

<p>
 


title: US sanctions against informal group, ISR
uri: US-sanctions-against-informal-group-ISR
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(US_sanctions_against_informal_group,_ISR)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(US_sanctions_against_informal_group,_ISR)

content:
 
<p>
*US imposes sanctions on "extremist Israeli group" for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/14/us-imposes-sanctions-on-extremist-israeli-group-for-blocking-gaza-aid">blocking Gaza aid</a>.*
<p>
So far, so good, but what about when the Israeli government blocks aid by not permitting it to
be brought to Gaza.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Urgent:_fake_abortion_clinics)
title: Urgent: fake abortion clinics
uri: Urgent-fake-abortion-clinics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Urgent:_fake_abortion_clinics)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-the-senate-to-oppose-fake-abortion-clinics">call on the
Senate</a> to oppose fake abortion clinics.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Netanyahu's invitation to Congress
uri: Urgent-Netanyahu-s-invitation-to-Congress
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Urgent:_Netanyahu's_invitation_to_Congress)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Urgent:_Netanyahu's_invitation_to_Congress)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.ourrevolution.com/signup/oppose-netanyahu-speech-schumer/">call on Schumer
and Jeffries</a> to withdraw their invitation to Netanyahu to address Congress.

<p>
 


title: NHS failing profits some politicians, UK
uri: NHS-failing-profits-some-politicians-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(NHS_failing_profits_some_politicians,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(NHS_failing_profits_some_politicians,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
*Tory party CEO is director at cancer care firm benefiting from
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/14/tory-party-ceo-stephen-massey-cancer-care-firm-genesiscare-nhs-waiting-lists">NHS waiting lists</a>.*
<p>
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#4_June_2024_(Starmer_purge_debacle,_UK)">The
Labour candidate</a> running against Jeremy Corbyn is an owner of a company that profits from
the NHS's failings.
<p>
I'd want to support a party in which such people would feel out of step with the party's goals.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: overturn "Citizens" United decision
uri: Urgent-overturn-Citizens-United-decision
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Urgent:_overturn_Citizens_United_decision)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Urgent:_overturn_Citizens_United_decision)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/our-elections-cannot-be-for-sale-demand-congress-overturn-the-citizens-united-decision-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-50-families-have-already-spent-more-than-600-million-on-the-2024-elections">call on Congress</a>
to overturn the "Citizens" United decision.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Ban certain political contributions
uri: Urgent-Ban-certain-political-contributions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Urgent:_Ban_certain_political_contributions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Urgent:_Ban_certain_political_contributions)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/ban-utilities-and-corps-political-contributions?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-hd&source=group-hd">call
on Congress</a> to support legislation banning political contributions from utilities, monopoly
corporations, and corporations seeking government contracts.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Urgent:_Undo_tax_cuts_for_the_rich)
title: Urgent: Undo tax cuts for the rich
uri: Urgent-Undo-tax-cuts-for-the-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Urgent:_Undo_tax_cuts_for_the_rich)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/end-trump-tax-cuts-musk/?t=1001">call on
Congress</a> to undo <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter's</a> tax cuts for the rich.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Divorce_as_illegal,_USA)
title: Divorce as illegal, USA
uri: Divorce-as-illegal-USA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Divorce_as_illegal,_USA)
content:
 
<p>
*The Christian right[-wing] is coming for
<a href="https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/354635/divorce-no-fault-states-marriage-republicans">divorce
next</a>.*

<p>
 


title: How election-integrity research stopped
uri: How-election-integrity-research-stopped
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(How_election-integrity_research_stopped)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(How_election-integrity_research_stopped)

content:
 
<p>
Stanford University is shutting down the elections research of the
<a href="https://www.platformer.news/stanford-internet-observatory-shutdown-stamos-diresta-sio/">Stanford
Internet Observatory</a> because defending against Republican lawfare was too expensive.

<p>
 


title: (Satire) driver's seat up-skirt feature
uri: (Satire)-driver-s-seat-up-skirt-feature
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_((Satire)_driver's_seat_up-skirt_feature)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_((Satire)_driver's_seat_up-skirt_feature)

content:
 
<p>
(satire)
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/tesla-announces-plan-to-add-up-skirt-cameras-on-all-veh-1851517472">*Tesla
Announces</a> Plan To Add Up-Skirt Cameras On All Vehicles.*
<p>
 


title: The gangster's political revenge wish
uri: The-gangster-s-political-revenge-wish
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(The_gangster's_political_revenge_wish)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(The_gangster's_political_revenge_wish)

content:
 
<p>
*Former White House staffer says [she heard the wrecker] call for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/15/trump-white-house-leaker-execution">leaker
to be executed</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Main parties' NHS-austerity plans, UK
uri: Main-parties-NHS-austerity-plans-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(Main_parties'_NHS_austerity_plans,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(Main_parties'_NHS_austerity_plans,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/15/labour-and-tories-would-both-leave-nhs-worse-off-than-under-austerity-says-thinktank">Labour
and Tories</a> would both leave NHS worse off than under [previous] austerity, says thinktank.*

<p>
 


title: Tory and Labour parties' popular decline
uri: Tory-and-Labour-parties-popular-decline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(Tory_and_Labour_parties'_popular_decline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(Tory_and_Labour_parties'_popular_decline)

content:
 
<p>
*Tories and Labour on course for lowest [combined]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/15/tories-and-labour-on-course-for-lowest-share-of-the-vote-since-1945">share
 of the vote</a> since 1945.*
<p>
It looks like a lot of people don't want to vote for plutocratists.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(SWE_trades_IRN_Assassin_for_spy)
title: SWE trades IRN assassin for "spy"
uri: SWE-trades-IRN-assassin-for-spy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(SWE_trades_IRN_Assassin_for_spy)
content:
 
<p>
Sweden ransomed Johan Floderus, who had been imprisoned in Iran based on political accusations,
by releasing Iranian convict Hamid Noury, who was convicted of participating in the killing of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/15/swedish-eu-diplomat-johan-floderus-freed-from-iran-jail-in-prisoner-swap">over
a hundred political prisoners of Iran</a>.
<p>
One must suspect that the accusations against Floderus were fabricated specifically to use him
for this trade.  Governments should tell their officials to refuse to visit countries that might
be seeking pawns to capture and trade.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(Urgent:_Turning_away_asylum_seekers)
title: Urgent: Turning away asylum seekers
uri: Urgent-Turning-away-asylum-seekers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(Urgent:_Turning_away_asylum_seekers)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden
<a href="https://act.ourrevolution.com/signup/biden-asylum-executive-order/">not to imitate the
bully</a>'s asylum restrictions.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(No-fault_divorce_as_next_target)
title: No-fault divorce as next target
uri: No-fault-divorce-as-next-target
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(No-fault_divorce_as_next_target)
content:
 
<p>
*Republicans want
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/15/republicans-no-fault-divorce">to
make it harder</a> to get a divorce in the US.*
<p>
That fits into the general plan to impose their religion, and its sexual prudery, on everyone.
We must defeat them.

<p>
 


title: Amy Pritchard fuel-rebel climate-keeper
uri: Amy-Pritchard-fuel-rebel-climate-keeper
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(Amy_Pritchard_fuel-rebel,_climate_keeper)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(Amy_Pritchard_fuel-rebel,_climate_keeper)

content:
 
<p>

*Amy Pritchard is the first person to be jailed for a campaign in which climate protesters
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/15/jail-jp-morgan-fossil-fuels-civil-disobedience">targeted
banks</a> across London.* She explains her decision to break windows at the office of JP Morgan.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(Adobe_Inc_boundaries)
title: Adobe Inc boundaries
uri: Adobe-Inc-boundaries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#17_June_2024_(Adobe_Inc_boundaries)
content:
 
<p>
Adobe corrected some misconceptions that were suggested by loose wording in its newly
<a href="https://www.engadget.com/adobe-is-updating-its-terms-of-service-following-a-backlash-over-recent-changes-120044152.html">imposed
requirement</a> that users give Adobe permission to snoop on their work.  Adobe agreed not
to <em>publish</em> their work (Please don't call anyone's artwork
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content">"content"</a>!), and won't
train machine learning models with it.  (Please don't call them
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArticicialIntelligence">"artificial
intelligence"</a>!)
<p>
But it does indeed intend to snoop, having effectively forced users
to give permission for that.
<p>
This is a big step towards a society of total surveillance, in which
privacy and the US fourth amendment are reduced to fragmentary relics.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_June_2024_(Urgent:_Supreme_Court_investigations)
title: Urgent: Supreme Court investigations
uri: Urgent-Supreme-Court-investigations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_June_2024_(Urgent:_Supreme_Court_investigations)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to demand an investigation into corruption in the
Supreme Court.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_June_2024_(Define_a_person's_social-health)
title: Defining a person's social-health
uri: Defining-a-person-s-social-health
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_June_2024_(Define_a_person's_social-health)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/article/2024/jun/14/what-is-social-health">Social
heath consists of</a> having social connections to other people.  Our age seems to be creating
massive social illness.  *[Roughtly] 330 million adults around the globe endure weeks at a time
without speaking to a single family member or friend,*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_June_2024_(Microsoft_security_vs_profits)
title: Microsoft security vs profits
uri: Microsoft-security-vs-profits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_June_2024_(Microsoft_security_vs_profits)
content:
 
<p>
*Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S.
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers">Government
Vulnerable</a> to Russian [crackers], Whistleblower Says.*
<p>
This shows the error of assuming that a proprietary program is going to be more secure than free
software, and why you should not systematically expect programs under the control of a company
to maintain your security.  Even if it never seeks to attack you, it can have a motive to let
you down.
<p>
Side issues about terminology: the article uses misleading propaganda terms such
as <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty">"intellectual
property"</a>
and <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#CloudComputing">"cloud"</a>, and
says <a href="/articles/on-hacking.html">"hackers"</a> when it ought to say "crackers".

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Thomas and Alito, recuse yourselves
uri: Urgent-Thomas-and-Alito-recuse-yourselves
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_June_2024_(Urgent:_Thomas_and_Alito,_recuse_yourselves)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_June_2024_(Urgent:_Thomas_and_Alito,_recuse_yourselves)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-justices-alito-and-thomas-must-recuse-themselves-from-cases-related-to-jan-6?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-bowers-news-media-main-list&source=20240521TAR_BNM">call
on Justices Thomas and Alito</a> to recuse themselves from cases about the Jan 6 insurrection.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_June_2024_(Prosecusion_of_Arundhati_Roy)
title: Prosecusion of Arundhati Roy
uri: Prosecusion-of-Arundhati-Roy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#18_June_2024_(Prosecusion_of_Arundhati_Roy)
content:
 
<p>
India will prosecute Arundhati Roy for her political opinions, under a law
passed by Modi's party
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/15/india-author-arundhati-roy-to-be-prosecuted-over-2010-kashmir-remarks">for
that purpose</a>.  Other human rights
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#30_June_2022_(Mhammed_Zubair_arrested_in_India)">defenders
in India</a> have been persecuted too.
<!-- Could not find the [pol note about the speaker who could to come to the Kerala Book Fair
because he was being persecuted by the Indian government] -->
<p>
India
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2017-may-aug.html#15_July_2017_(Young_people_in_Kashmir_organizing)">promised
Kashmir a referendum</a> on whether to be part of India, then never held te referendum.  There
has been unrest in Kashmir ever since.  A few years ago, Modi imposed martial law and an
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2019-nov-feb.html#8_January_2020_(Internet_ban)">internet
shutdown</a> on the whole state (which
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#10_August_2019_(Kashmir_converted_to_a_pair_of_territories)">India
asserts</a> is no longer a state).

<p>
 


title: Urgent: access to mifepristone, misoprostol
uri: Urgent-access-to-mifepristone-misoprostol
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_June_2024_(Urgent:_access_to_mifepristone,_misoprostol)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_June_2024_(Urgent:_access_to_mifepristone,_misoprostol)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens and residents: phone your state governor to say to veto any attempt to restrict or
criminalize mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs used to cause abortions and for various
other purposes.
<p>
(Can anyone tell me a convenient place to get phone numbers for governors' offices?)

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_June_2024_(Parents:_violent_crime_falling,_USA)
title: Parents: violent crime falling, USA
uri: Parents-violent-crime-falling-USA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_June_2024_(Parents:_violent_crime_falling,_USA)
content:
 
<p>
The US murder rate today is less than in the 70s, 80s and 90s,
<a href="https://www.freerangekids.com/every-day-is-the-worst-day-ever-signed-the-media/">but
parents are more terrified</a> than ever.
<p>
We know that the high crime rates of the
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_(Rate_of_violence_in_US_schools_has_been_declining)">60s
to 90s were due to lead</a> in the gasoline; eliminating leaded gas was followed, after under 20
years, by decreases in crime.

<p>
 


title: Many thousands of minors starving, Gaza
uri: Many-thousands-of-minors-starving-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_June_2024_(Many_thousands_of_minors_starving,_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_June_2024_(Many_thousands_of_minors_starving,_Gaza)

content:
 
<p>
UNRWA says that
<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/15/over-50000-children-in-gaza-need-treatment-for-malnutrition-un-says">50000
minors</a> in Gaza are on the edge of starvation.  UNICEF describes the constant obstruction
applied by Israel to transport of aid into and within Gaza.
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_June_2024_(Urgent:_Parole_Leonard_Pelletier)
title: Urgent: Parole Leonard Pelletier
uri: Urgent-Parole-Leonard-Pelletier
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_June_2024_(Urgent:_Parole_Leonard_Pelletier)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens and residents: call for parole
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/free-leonard-peltier-3?nowrapper=true">for Leonard
Pelletier</a>.
<p>
This is an actionnetwork.org "send a letter" campaigns with a single,
fixed destination.  It normally runs nonfree JavaScript code.  Here's
how you can sign it while using LibreJS to block nonfree JavaScript
code from running.
<p> 
The first step, I have done for you.  I added `?nowrapper=true' to the end of the campaign's
URL.  That parameter directs the server not to add unnecessary material that depends on JavaScript.
<p>
Following that link should show you a page that starts with the message, `Letter campaigns will
not work without JavaScript!'  But that message mostly refers to material that `?nowrapper=true'
has suppressed.
<p>
In that page, fill in the personal information in the box on the right side of the page.  That's
how you say who's sending the letter.
<p>
Then click the "START WRITING" button.  You will get a page that does not work at all, but by
editing its URL in the browser's address bar, you can finish sending your letter.
<p>
First, if `&redirect' appears in the address bar, delete that and everything after it, until the
end of the URL you see.  Then, unconditionally, add `&nowrapper=true'.  Then type ENTER to make
the browser access the modified URL.
<p>
This will give you a version of the page that works without JavaScript.  In that page you can
edit the text of your letter, and send it.
<p>
That step, editing the URL and visiting it, is the only additional work needed to sign with
nonfree JavaScript code blocked.  I'm sure you'll agree it is a small effort to stop some
unjust, and potentially malicious, software from running on your computer.
<p>
This method works for letter campaigns that send letters to a fixed destinee, the same destinee
for all senders.  I have posted this campaign, and these instructions, because it is of that
kind.
<p>
Alas, there is no workaround for the letter campaigns that send to "your elected
representatives."  That problem is caused by something outside actionnetwork's control.  The
nonfree JavaScript for those campaigns comes from the officials' own web sites in the official
web sites of Congress, not from actionnetwork.org, and I know of no way to bypass it, and no way
to reach them digitally.  All I can do is phone them.
<p>
It's sad and ironic that our elected representatives require their constituents to run nonfree
software to communicate digitally with them.  I do not hold them personally responsible for this
wrong, because they are surely not aware of the issue.  But I can't close my eyes to its
presence and let it run on my computer.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_June_2024_(Nuclear_weapons_spending_up)
title: Nuclear weapons spending up
uri: Nuclear-weapons-spending-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_June_2024_(Nuclear_weapons_spending_up)
content:
 
<p>
The US has greatly increased its spending on nuclear weapons,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/17/global-spending-on-nuclear-weapons-up-13-in-record-rise">and
other countries</a> have followed suit.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_June_2024_(Coastal_nuclear_power_plant__Kenya)
title: Coastal nuclear power plant? Kenya
uri: Coastal-nuclear-power-plant-Kenya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_June_2024_(Coastal_nuclear_power_plant__Kenya)
content:
 
<p>
A
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jun/17/kenya-plans-first-nuclear-power-plant-kilifi-opposition-activists">proposed
nuclear power plant</a> for Kenya's coast is sure to be an enormous waste of money at best,
contributing to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> because renewable generation would have been cheaper and finished
many years sooner.
<p>
At worst, a tsunami will destroy he reactor.  As global heading raises sea level, the size of
tsunami sufficient to cause a disaster will decrease.  Meanwhile, they surely don't know what
they will do with the nuclear waste.
<p>
Nuclear generation is so expensive that it cannot be worth that cost anywhere in the world.
Simply for this reason, I have to suspect corruption is behind it somehow.
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_June_2024_(Uyghur_cultural_erasure,_CHN-XJ)
title: Uyghur cultural erasure, CHN-XJ
uri: Uyghur-cultural-erasure-CHN-XJ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_June_2024_(Uyghur_cultural_erasure,_CHN-XJ)
content:
 
<p>
China is erasing the Uyghur past
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/19/china-has-renamed-hundreds-of-uyghur-villages-and-towns-say-human-rights-groups">in
the region</a> they have lived in.

<p>
 


title: Criminalizing gas pipeline-dissent
uri: Criminalizing-gas-pipeline-dissent
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_June_2024_(Gas_pipeline-resistance_criminalization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_June_2024_(Gas_pipeline-resistance_criminalization)

content:
 
<p>
Politicians bought by fossil fuel companies are
<a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/06/18/big-oils-plan-to-criminalize-pipeline-protests/">working
on laws</a> to make protesting near pipelines a crime.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_June_2024_(Blind,_restaurant_patrons_out,_JAP)
title: Blind, restaurant patrons out, JAP
uri: Blind-restaurant-patrons-out-JAP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_June_2024_(Blind,_restaurant_patrons_out,_JAP)
content:
 
<p>
In Japan, many restaurants have required customers to order
using the restaurants' tablets, or even with their own snoop-phones.
This makes it
<a href="https://ajw-origin.potaufeu.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15309830">impossible for blind
customers</a>.  The restaurants have cut staff drastically, so blind customers find no one who
can help them.  They are effectively excluded.
<p>
If the restaurant requires customers to bring a snoop-phone, or to pay using a digital system
that identifies the user, that would exclude me, too.  Even the task of reading the menu can
exclude me &mdash; if I would need to have a snoop-phone to see it, or if it is so high up that
I can't make out the letters.  (My eyes are not as good as they were a couple of years ago.)

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Rescind Netanyahu's invitation
uri: Urgent-Rescind-Netanyahu-s-invitation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_June_2024_(Urgent:_Rescind_Netanyahu's_invitation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_June_2024_(Urgent:_Rescind_Netanyahu's_invitation)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.ourrevolution.com/signup/oppose-netanyahu-speech-dem-leaders/">call on
Democratic leaders</a> to rescind their support for Netanyahu's speech to Congress, and all
Democrats to boycott the speech.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!                              
Main Switchboard: <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>

<p>
 


title: Obscuring-antics, CHI in AUS parliament
uri: Obscuring-antics-CHI-in-AUS-parliament
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_June_2024_(Obscuring_antics,_CHI_in_AUS_parliament)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_June_2024_(Obscuring_antics,_CHI_in_AUS_parliament)

content:
 
<p>
At a signing ceremony in Australia's Parliament building, Chinese embassy personnel tried to
hide views of formerly imprisoned
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#16_June_2024_(Cheng_Lei)">journalist
Cheng Lei</a> from Chinese cameras. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/18/australia-complains-to-chinese-embassy-over-ham-fisted-attempt-at-blocking-view-of-cheng-lei-at-event">Australian
personnel</a> had to physically stand in their way.
<p>
The Chinese government made itself ridiculous by doing this, but think about the process that
must have led to it.  The least powerful of those given the duty of going to Australia's
Parliament were surely not of the lowest rank, and some higher official must have ordered them
to do this.  That displays the rigidity of a self-important dictatorship, and the dangerous
hostility latent in its arrogance sense of entitlement to power.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_June_2024_(Remote_beach_plastic_efforts,_CHL)
title: Ships' waste-plastic: a story, CHL
uri: Ships-waste-plastic-a-story-CHL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_June_2024_(Remote_beach_plastic_efforts,_CHL)
content:
 
<p>
Enormous amounts of plastic debris wash ashore on Easter Island.
They have to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jun/18/your-plastic-is-here-how-easter-island-rapa-nui-copes-with-500-pieces-of-rubbish-an-hour-washing-ashore">clean
the beaches repeatedly</a>.
<p>
Over 5 million pieces of rubbish wash ashore there each year.  They have no way to dispose of it all.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_June_2024_(Banning_masks_in_subways__NYC)
title: Banning masks in subways? NYC
uri: Banning-masks-in-subways-NYC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#20_June_2024_(Banning_masks_in_subways__NYC)
content:
 
<p>
A horrible idea: New York Governor Hochul is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/15/new-york-face-masks-ban-subway-crime">thinking
of banning masks</a> in the New York City subways.
<p>
Everyone in the subway (or buses) should wear a mouth and nose mask!  Policy should encourage
everyone to do so.  To ban or discourage masks will cause real infections and real deaths
&mdash; merely so people will feel less worried.

<p>
 


title: Old motivators propagate Gaza war, UN
uri: Old-motivators-propagate-Gaza-war-UN
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Old_motivators_propagate_Gaza_war,_UN)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Old_motivators_propagate_Gaza_war,_UN)

content:
 
<p>
*The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/17/the-normalisation-of-dehumanisation-in-the-israel-palestine-conflict">normalisation
of dehumanisation</a> in the Israel-Palestine conflict.*
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


title: Congresscritter edge in stocks last 4yr
uri: Congresscritter-edge-in-stocks-last-4yr
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Congresscritter_edge_in_stocks_last_4yr)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Congresscritter_edge_in_stocks_last_4yr)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/06/06/nx-s1-4974720/congress-stock-trades-profits">Stock
traders</a> are trying to beat the market &mdash; by copying lawmakers.*

<p>
 


title: Manifestos tepid on climate crisis, UK
uri: Manifestos-tepid-on-climate-crisis-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Manifestos_tepid_on_climate_crisis,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Manifestos_tepid_on_climate_crisis,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
There seems to be far
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/10/disappointing-and-surprising-why-isnt-this-a-climate-election-in-the-uk">too
little attention</a> to coming climate disaster in the UK general election.
<p>
However, the lunatic right-wing party proposes to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/17/nigel-farage-launches-reform-uk-manifesto-a-contract-with-british-public">replace
climate defense</a> with climate surrender.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Cannabis-related_pardons_abound,_MD)
title: Cannabis-related pardons abound, MD
uri: Cannabis-related-pardons-abound-MD
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Cannabis-related_pardons_abound,_MD)
content:
 
<p>
*Maryland governor issues
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/17/maryland-wes-moore-marijuana-pardons">pardons
for 175,000</a> cannabis-related convictions.*
<p>
Marijuana should be legal, and people who were punished or might be punished for having it,
transporting it or selling it should be pardoned.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Mount_Fuji_crowd_control)
title: Mount Fuji crowd control
uri: Mount-Fuji-crowd-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Mount_Fuji_crowd_control)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/17/mount-fuji-crowd-control-gate-limit-tourists">Measures
to limit</a> overcrowding and avoid dangers in climbing Mount Fuji have the unjust side effect
of requiring each climbers to (1) identify perself and (2) carry a snoop-phone.
<p>
If I ever go to Japan again, that is one thing I certainly won't do.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(The_kamikazi_AI-drone_advantage,_US)
title: The kamikaze AI-drone advantage, US
uri: The-kamikaze-AI-drone-advantage-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(The_kamikazi_AI-drone_advantage,_US)
content:
 
<p>
The Pentagon is thinking about using large numbers of
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/06/17/pentagon-ai-kamikaze-cheap-drones-replicator/">more-or-less
autonomous</a> drones for fighting China.
<p>
This raises concerns that the drones will chose targets autonomously,
and kill lots of civilians &mdash; something I expect Ukraine's drone
controllers avoid, although Israel's drone controllers may not care.
<p>
Putting that issue aside, it seems like a good plan, but I don't see
how the US can expect to be better at this than China.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(A_new,_NRC,_ind._financial_role)
title: A new, NRC, ind. financial role
uri: A-new-NRC-ind-financial-role
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(A_new,_NRC,_ind._financial_role)
content:
 
<p>
Congress is about to dilute the safety mission of the
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/advance-act-actually-a-retreat-on-nuclear-power-safety">Nuclear
Regulatory Commission</a> with toxic fallout &mdash; a second mission to keep nuclear industry profitable.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Wood-pellet mills environmental rampages, CAN
uri: Urgent-Wood-pellet-mills-environmental-rampages-CAN
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Urgent:_Wood-pellet_mills_environmental_rampages,_CAN_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Urgent:_Wood-pellet_mills_environmental_rampages,_CAN_)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://act.stand.earth/page/68082/petition/1?">Call on Canada</a> to enforce its
environmental laws against logging to export wood chips for burning.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Renewables- vs fossil-fuel funding
uri: Urgent-Renewables-vs-fossil-fuel-funding
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Urgent:_Renewables_vs_fossil-fuel_funding)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Urgent:_Renewables_vs_fossil-fuel_funding)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://350.org/g7-2024-us/">call on Biden</a> to fund the transition to renewables and
stop funding fossil fuels.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a> and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

<p>
 


title: Pesticide research lacking, insects down
uri: Pesticide-research-lacking-insects-down
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Pesticide_research_lacking,_insects_down)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Pesticide_research_lacking,_insects_down)

content:
 
<p>
*‘I have seen the decline’:
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/19/i-have-seen-the-decline-pesticides-linked-to-falling-uk-insect-numbers">pesticides
linked</a> to falling UK insect numbers.*
<p>
Decreases in overall insect populations will cause repercussions through each ecosystem.  Many
animals (including humans) eat insects.  Many plants depend on insects to pollinate them and
disperse their seeds.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(All_classrooms'_Ten_Commandments,_LA)
title: All classrooms' Ten Commandments, LA
uri: All-classrooms-Ten-Commandments-LA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(All_classrooms'_Ten_Commandments,_LA)
content:
 
<p>
Louisiana
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/19/ten-commandments-louisiana-public-schools">Republicans
passed a law</a> to require every public school classroom to display a copy of the Ten
Commandments.
<p>
This sectarian requirement obviously contradicts the First Amendment (combined with the
subsequent amendment which says states can't do those things either).  It prohibits
establishment of religion.  But we can't count on those Republican wreckers on the Supreme Court
to honor that.

<p>
 


title: Unless adversarial arsenals change&hellip;
uri: Unless-adversarial-arsenals-change
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Unless_adversarial_arsenals_change%26hellip;)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#21_June_2024_(Unless_adversarial_arsenals_change%26hellip;)

content:
 
<p>
The head of NATO argued for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/17/row-as-nato-chief-hints-at-talks-to-increase-availability-of-nuclear-weapons">making more nuclear weapons</a>.
<p>
More nuclear weapons than the US has cannot improve deterrence.  With a sane enemy, the use of
100 nuclear weapons, producing a nuclear winter that would cause starvation around the world, is
enough deterrent.  With an insane enemy, 10,000 nuclear weapons would not be enough.
<p>
This provoked a lot of opposition, but I am sure that the businesses that would profit from
making and deploying them will come up with lots of flimsy reasons in favor.

<p>
 


title: Peru civil war soldiers raping, case won
uri: Peru-civil-war-soldiers-raping-case-won
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_June_2024_(Peru_civil_war_soldiers_raping,_case_won)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_June_2024_(Peru_civil_war_soldiers_raping,_case_won)

content:
 
<p>
*Peruvian soldiers found guilty of rapes committed during civil war in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jun/20/peruvian-soldiers-found-guilty-of-rapes-committed-during-civil-war-in-historic-verdict">historic
verdict</a>.*
<p>
Most or all armies have a tendency to overlook crimes against committed against enemy soldiers,
and even against civilians.  Progress in establishing a tradition of prosecuting soldiers for
these crimes makes the statement, "We are not like Putin."

<p>
 


title: Arming Israel illegal for UK suppliers
uri: Arming-Israel-illegal-for-UK-suppliers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_June_2024_(Arming_Israel_illegal_for_UK_suppliers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_June_2024_(Arming_Israel_illegal_for_UK_suppliers)

content:
 
<p>
*Activists tell UK arms makers they may face criminal
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/20/activists-tell-uk-arms-makers-criminal-liability-sales-israel">liability
over sales</a> to Israel.*
<p>
They include companies building parts of the American F-35 fighter.

<p>
 


title: Insurrectionist-deceit precedents, USA
uri: Insurrectionist-deceit-precedents-USA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_June_2024_(Insurrectionist-deceit_precedents,_USA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_June_2024_(Insurrectionist-deceit_precedents,_USA)

content:
 
<p>
Comparing the <!---->insurrectionist's attack on US democracy with
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/20/trump-threat-democracy-precedents">three
previous attacks</a>, by Presidents John Adams, President Andrew Jackson and President Richard
Nixon.
<p>
The challenge for Americans today is to recognize the threat of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#insurrectionist">the insurrectionist</a>, and be
permitted to vote against him.

<p>
 


title: US states celebrating the Confederacy
uri: US-states-celebrating-the-Confederacy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_June_2024_(US_states_celebrating_the_Confederacy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#22_June_2024_(US_states_celebrating_the_Confederacy)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/19/states-that-do-not-honor-juneteenth">Ten
US states</a> have state holidays that celebrate the Confederacy.  They include nearly all the
states that formed the Confederacy in 1861 and fought to perpetuate slavery, plus one (Kentucky)
in which the unionists triumphed then and prevented secession.
<p>
It is a mistake to take one negative moral judgment of a person as erasing all good that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a>
did.  We should judge a person by the magnitudes of the good and the bad.
<p>
Any individual who owned slaves or supported the Confederacy did wrong that way, but each such
individual did other things too.  In most cases those other things were of no special
importance, so they don't change our conclusions.  But there are exceptions.  In rare cases, a
person's other activities have been such great contributions to humanity as to justify our
admiring that person <em>despite</em> per involvement with slavery (though we should criticize
that anyway).
<p>
A holiday that explicitly celebrates the Confederacy or its leaders is a much simpler moral
subject than a real human being's life.  Such a holiday stands only for the Confederacy and what
that stood for: slavery and bigotry, with disloyalty as sauce.  Those holidays deserve pure and
simple condemnation.
<p>
A few states celebrate a conjoined holiday, "Martin Luther King / Robert E Lee Day".  They
juxtapose commemoration of racism with commemoration of the movement against racism.  I am not
sure what to think of them, but I think they are too soft on slavery.
<p>
It is ironic that the article linked to above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black"
but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither
one.)  <a href="/bigotry.html">I denounce bigotry</a>, and usually I will not link to articles
that practice it, but I make some exceptions.  I think the article linked to above is
interesting enough to justify an exception.  But when I make a such exception, I rebuke the
symbolic bigotry also.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Delayed_delivery_of_heavy_bombs,_ISR)
title: Delayed delivery of heavy bombs, ISR
uri: Delayed-delivery-of-heavy-bombs-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Delayed_delivery_of_heavy_bombs,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
Netanyahu complained that Biden is carrying out  his announced intention to
<a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-06-18-2024-2a7aeb71867150c5a9d84ae57e2e7bf2">delay
delivery of heavy bombs</a> to Israel.
<p>
AIPAC, the Israeli Hawks' (and extremists') lobby, has been putting lots of
effort into
<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/21/headlines/aipac_affiliated_groups_pour_record_sums_into_defeating_progressive_ny_rep_jamaal_bowman">defeating Rep. Jamaal Bowman</a>
in a primary this Tuesday.

<p>
 


title: Scientific research org disparaged, AUS
uri: Scientific-research-org-disparaged-AUS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Scientific_research_org_disparaged,_AUS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Scientific_research_org_disparaged,_AUS)

content:
 
<p>
*Nuclear engineer
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/21/peter-dutton-coalition-nuclear-policy-engineer-small-modular-reactors-no-commercially-viable">dismisses [Australian right wing's] claim</a>
that small
modular reactors could be commercially viable soon.*
<p>
This
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#19_March_2024_(Scientific_research_org_discredited,_AUS)">confirms</a>
what I said recently.
<p>
I am not an expert like him, but I know what experts have concluded for years about nuclear
power's lack of practical use for electric power on Earth.  For the public it is a waste of
money; for business it is an opportunity to get paid lots of money and achieve no good.

<p> 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Govt_vs_encryption,_AUS)
title: Govt vs encryption, AUS
uri: Govt-vs-encryption-AUS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Govt_vs_encryption,_AUS)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/20/meredith-walker-signal-boss-government-encryption-laws">Police
have used</a> the "very legitimate grievance" the public has with large tech companies like Meta
about data collection and surveillance as a pretext to undermine user privacy*.
<p>
The first step in protecting our privacy from snooping dis-services is to reject nonfree
(non-libre) clients and apps.  Nearly all apps are nonfree, and most organizations' web sites
run nonfree software in the users' browser.  Once they send private data to the server, there is
hardly any limit in practice to where it will go.  (There are some dis-services that explicit
demand users enter sensitive private data &mdash; those pose various more complex problems.)
<p>
I've considered using Signal, since the client program (what I would need to run) is free
software.  However, it requires having a portable phone,
<!-- [pol note or article if there is any.  Look for something on gnu.org too] --> and that
requirement conclusively excludes me.

<p>
 


title: Intelligence assistance, US, UK, in ISR
uri: Intelligence-assistance-US-UK-in-ISR
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Intelligence_assistance,_US,_UK,_in_ISR)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Intelligence_assistance,_US,_UK,_in_ISR)

content:
 
<p>
*U.S. Intelligence Helped Israel [plan the operation to]
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/08/world/middleeast/us-intelligence-israel-hostage-rescue.html">
Rescue Four Hostages</a> in Gaza*.
<p>
Since the plans were designed to minimize civilian casualties, I don't see anything wrong in
that part of the operation.  <a href="#14_June_2024_(Hostage_rescue_carnage,_Gaza)">Many
civilians were killed</a> and wounded after something went wrong during the getaway phase.  At
that point they started to improvise as the plan was no longer usable.
<p>
The obligation to safeguard civilians does not end when a plan goes awry.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(The_four-hostage_rescue,_ISR)
title: The four-hostage rescue, ISR
uri: The-four-hostage-rescue-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(The_four-hostage_rescue,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
The US insists that Israel did not use the US aid pier for the deadly
hostage rescue operation.  What Israel did use was
<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-denies-israeli-forces-used-gaza-aid-pier-during-nuseirat-operation">the
area of land near the pier</a>.
<p>
This makes sense to me.  I don't think that area of land is or was under US control.  But I have
seen it described as a "safe area", which I think implies some sort of agreement to do no
fighting there.
<p>
If that agreement included Israel and HAMAS, then using it for a combat operation (such as the
hostage rescue operation) was a violation of that agreement by Israel;
<p>
I've read that the World Food Program stopped transporting aid from the pier because of this.
This makes sense.  No humanitarian organization will be allowed to continue operations in Gaza
unless it satisfies all parties that it is militarily neutral.
<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(New_pun)
title: New pun
uri: 2024-06-24-New-pun
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(New_pun)
content:
 
<p>
New pun:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="https://stallman.org/puns.html#expectorant">My argument with guaifenesin</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Reasons_to_abandon_Ukraine,_NOT!)
title: Reasons to abandon Ukraine, NOT!
uri: Reasons-to-abandon-Ukraine-NOT
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Reasons_to_abandon_Ukraine,_NOT!)
content:
 
<p>
The Ukranian <a href="https://texty.org.ua/articles/112619/roller-coaster-narratives/">journalists of
Texty</a> refute the arguments of Putin's disinformation.
<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(The_US_propaganda_against_Ukraine)
title: The US propaganda against Ukraine
uri: The-US-propaganda-against-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(The_US_propaganda_against_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>
Ukrainian data-journalists studied published statements and made a
list of prominent
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/13/2246520/-Ukrainian-journalists-made-a-spreadsheet-of-US-opponents-of-Ukraine-aid-It-caused-an-explosion">people
in the US who were publicly opposing</a> support for Ukraine's defense.
<p>
The
<a href="https://texty.org.ua/fragments/112618/roller-coaster-summary/">summary</a>
of their conclusions.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Biden_protects_old-growth_forests)
title: Biden protects old-growth forests
uri: Biden-protects-old-growth-forests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Biden_protects_old-growth_forests)
content:
 
<p>
*The Biden administration is
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/sierra-club-statement-on-national-old-growth-plan">protecting old-growth forests</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Sports-team_owners'_playbook)
title: Sports-team owners' playbook
uri: Sports-team-owners-playbook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Sports-team_owners'_playbook)
content:
 
<p>
Super-rich major league sports team owners continue to
<a href="https://substack.perfectunion.us/p/the-billionaire-sports-team-owners">squeeze money out of the public</a>
by making
one city or state bid against another to subsidize the team.
<p>
Many years ago
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_September_2014_(Sports_teams_bully_US_cities)">I
condemned this</a> and <a href="/there-ought-to-be-a-law.html#no-sports-subsidy">proposed a federal law</a>
to regulate such backwards competition.  The idea
was that if a company makes location A compete against location B, any subsidy from A must get
B's approval and vice versa.
<p>
For the specific case of sports teams, a law outright prohibiting all governmental subsidy to
them might do the job well, but the proposal above would help also in situations which are not
cartels and which do work that is more important than artificial contests.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Same-sex_acts,_primates,_mammals)
title: Same-sex acts, primates, mammals
uri: Same-sex-acts-primates-mammals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Same-sex_acts,_primates,_mammals)
content:
 
<p>
*Study finds same-sex sexual behaviour in primates and other mammals
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/20/animal-homosexual-behaviour-under-reported-by-scientists-survey-shows">widely
observed</a> but seldom published.*

<p>
 


title: Settler-control up: occupied West Bank
uri: Settler-control-up-occupied-West-Bank
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(More_settler-control:_occupied_West_Bank)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(More_settler-control:_occupied_West_Bank)

content:
 
<p>
Israel gave fanatical "settlers" control over expansion of its colonies in the West Bank.  They
can
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/20/idf-transfers-powers-in-occupied-west-bank-to-pro-settler-civil-servants">authorize
their own construction</a> of new colonies.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(IDF's_collateral_damages,_Gaza_City)
title: Recent IDF collateral damage, Gaza City
uri: Recent-IDF-collateral-damage-Gaza-City
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(IDF's_collateral_damages,_Gaza_City)
content:
 
<p>
Israel tried to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/22/israeli-airstrikes-gaza-city">assassinate
a HAMAS commander</a>, disregarding the presence of numerous civilian bystanders nearby and the
evident likelihood of many civilian casualties.  Not surprisingly, many civilians were killed by
the attack.
<p>
This was a war crime according to the Geneva conventions, if I understand this point correctly.
The presence of a valid military target, even an important one, does not excuse predictably
killing many civilians.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(Nuclear_power_as_boondoggle,_AUS)
title: Nuclear power as boondoggle, AUS
uri: Nuclear-power-as-boondoggle-AUS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(Nuclear_power_as_boondoggle,_AUS)
content:
 
<p>
The Australian right wing plan for new nuclear power plants has been
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/23/peter-duttons-nuclear-plan-could-cost-as-much-as-600bn-and-supply-just-37-of-australias-energy-by-2050-experts-say">revealed
as a bogus business</a> boondoggle to make a poisonous pile of pollution.
<p>
I expect them to show as much respect for truth as <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a>
does in the US, by continuing to champion the debunked claims.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(Digital_surveillance_veering,_EU)
title: Digital surveillance veering, EU
uri: Digital-surveillance-veering-EU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(Digital_surveillance_veering,_EU)
content:
 
<p>
*EU Council has
<a href="https://stackdiary.com/eu-council-has-withdrawn-the-vote-on-chat-control/">withdrawn
the vote</a> on Chat Control, because the plan no longer has majority support.
<p>
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#24_May_2022_(EU_proposes_mandatory_censorship_to_scan_for_prohibited_communication)">Chatcontrol</a>
is the plan to impose massive censorship on internet communications, and its defeat is a great
victory.  Of course, it is not guaranteed to be a permanent victory.

<p>
 


title: LLM training is a natural-resources hog
uri: LLM-training-is-a-natural-resources-hog
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(LLM-training_as_a_natural-resource_hog)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(LLM-training_as_a_natural-resource_hog)

content:
 
<p>
The massive adoption of chatbots (bullshit generators often 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligence">"referred to
misleadingly as artificial intelligence</a>") is
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/the-unknown-toll-of-the-ai-takeover/">greatly increasing the
demand for electric power</a>.  This in turn is increasing the use of fossil fuels and thus
accelerating climate disaster.
<p>
How ironic that this is a byproduct of making online services function worse.
<p>
The article erroneously states that neural network systems "make decisions similar to the human
brain."  Aside from the confused concepts &mdash; it makes no sense to compare a decision with a
brain &mdash; digital "neural network" systems do not work like groups of real neurons.  These
"neural networks" implement an abstraction and simplification of early theories of how real
neurons work.  They can do some useful things, but we should avoid erroneous explanations of
them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(Complaints_about_NYPD_up)
title: Complaints about NYPD insignia up
uri: Complaints-about-NYPD-insignia-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(Complaints_about_NYPD_up)
content:
 
<p>
*[New York <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">Thug</a> Department] complaints surge under [night-mayor] Adams to reach
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/19/nypd-complaints-increase-mayor-adams">highest
level since 2012</a>.*
<p>
You have to expect an ex-cop in a powerful office to encourage cruelty and brutality by cops
&mdash; simply by tending to take their side in disputes.  And even if the ex-cop is black,
encouraging cops' cruelty will promote white supremacism, because the two go together.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(A_climate-planning_govt_agency,_UK)
title: A climate-planning govt agency, UK
uri: A-climate-planning-govt-agency-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(A_climate-planning_govt_agency,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
A British court ruled that planning agencies must consider the climate
damage that will result from the fossil fuel to be extracted when they
consider whether
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/landmark-supreme-court-ruling-throws-doubt-on-new-uk-fossil-fuel-projects">to
approve fossil fuel development</a>.
<p>
This is exactly the needed policy, but the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a> will try anything to get it reversed
or undermined.  If they fail, it will set an example for the world.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(Faked_websites_with_election_news)
title: Faked websites with "election news"
uri: Faked-websites-with-election-news
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(Faked_websites_with_election_news)
content:
 
<p>
*Deluge of fake news websites threatens to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/20/fake-news-websites-us-election">drown
out truth</a> during US election.*


*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/most-people-in-petrostates-want-quick-switch-to-clean-energy-un-poll-finds">Most people in petrostates</a>
want quick switch to clean energy, UN poll finds.*
<p>
In the US, 54% want a quick switch.  Alas, democracy in the US is not running very smoothly.
<p>
*Fossil fuel use reaches
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/fossil-fuel-use-reaches-global-record-despite-clean-energy-growth">global
record</a> despite clean energy growth.*
<p>
No amount of renewable generation will save us unless we use it to contrive a drastic reduction
in greenhouse emissions.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(Plastic_prohibition_working,_Vanuatu)
title: Plastic prohibition working, Vanuatu
uri: Plastic-prohibition-working-Vanuatu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(Plastic_prohibition_working,_Vanuatu)
content:
 
<p>
Vanuatu has cleaned up its lagoons by prohibiting several common kinds of
disposable plastic items &mdash; including
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/how-the-small-pacific-island-nation-of-vanuatu-drastically-cut-plastic-pollution">artificial
flowers</a>.

<p>
 


title: Ethiopia's distrupter-in-chief conned US
uri: Ethiopia-s-distrupter-in-chief-conned-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(Ethiopia's_distrupter-in-chief_conned_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(Ethiopia's_distrupter-in-chief_conned_US)

content:
 
<p>
An account of how Ethiopia and the west fell for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/20/abiy-ahmed-ethiopia-eritrea-tigray-nobel-peace-prize-to-civil-war">Abiy
Ahmed as a messiah</a> and how his government collapsed into war and chaos.
<p>
The article is too long for me to read it all carefully.  I would like to have done so.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(Feelings_from_major_losses)
title: Feelings arising from major losses
uri: Feelings-arising-from-major-losses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(Feelings_from_major_losses)
content:
 
<p>
A psychotherapist writes about the error of trying to help someone by
rushing or pressuring per to "cheer up"
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/17/angry-disappointed-heartbroken-think-twice-before-you-call-the-feelings-police">after
a real loss</a>.
<p>
Years ago, I had no "feelings police".  If something made me despair, I cried.
<p>
Five years of cancellation have helped me develop a "feelings police" of a sort.  It does not
blank out feelings of danger, loss and suffering, but enables me to set them aside in order to
deal with the situation in a calm and steady way.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(LLM_takout,_McDonald's)
title: LLM takeout taken out, McDonald's
uri: LLM-takeout-taken-out-McDonald-s
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_June_2024_(LLM_takout,_McDonald's)
content:
 
<p>
McDonald's tried to replace human workers with
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/17/mcdonalds-ends-ai-drive-thru">a
bullshit generator</a>, but even in the narrow domain of ordering food from a menu it worked
badly.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Repealing_obsenity_laws_from_1800's)
title: Repealing the Comstock Act
uri: Repealing-the-Comstock-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Repealing_obsenity_laws_from_1800's)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/20/comstock-act-democrats">Democrats move</a>
to repeal anti-obscenity and anti-abortion act from 1873.*
<p>
I expect Republicans will fight to keep the Comstock Act, hoping to use it for repression.  But
maybe that will convince some people not to vote for them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Wealth_tax_ready_and_now_legal)
title: Wealth tax ready and now legal
uri: Wealth-tax-ready-and-now-legal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_June_2024_(Wealth_tax_ready_and_now_legal)
content:
 
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/scotus-ruling-on-moore-prevents-big-retroactive-corporate-tax-break-leaves-door-open-to-federal-wealth-taxes">Supreme
Court approved</a> a tax that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> put on moving money to the US, and thus left the
legal door open to wealth taxes on big business.

<p>
 


title: Whyever deny workplace heat protections
uri: Whyever-deny-workplace-heat-protections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_June_2024_(Whyever_deny_workplace_heat_protections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_June_2024_(Whyever_deny_workplace_heat_protections)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/21/us-states-heatwave-fossil-fuel-money">Elected
officials in sweltering US states</a> prioritizing fossil fuel cash over people.*
<p>
This includes the Republican governors of Florida, Texas, Louisiana and Nevada.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_June_2024_(A_US$75_million_campain_contribution)
title: A US$75 million campaign contribution
uri: A-US-75-million-campaign-contribution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_June_2024_(A_US$75_million_campain_contribution)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/21/billionaire-tim-mellon-trump-donation">One
right-wing billionaire</a> has given $75 million to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> campaign and $25 to the
confuser's campaign (RFK Jr).

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_June_2024_(Wealth_tax_possible,_UK)
title: Wealth tax possible, UK
uri: Wealth-tax-possible-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_June_2024_(Wealth_tax_possible,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Labour is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/21/labour-drafts-options-for-wealth-taxes-to-unlock-funds-for-public-services">considering
plans</a> for a wealth tax in the UK.  At last it is looking for a way to make a substantial
improvement in all the problems caused by Tory spending cuts.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_June_2024_(Afghanistan_and_the_UN)
title: Afghanistan and the UN
uri: Afghanistan-and-the-UN
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_June_2024_(Afghanistan_and_the_UN)
content:
 
<p>
The UN seeks to hold an international meeting about Afghanistan and have the government of
Afghanistan participate.  That government demands the total exclusion of Afghan women from the
event.  (I can't tell from the article whether the UN has accepted it or not.)
<p>
Should the UN accept
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jun/21/shutting-afghan-women-out-of-key-un-conference-to-appease-taliban-a-betrayal">that
demand</a>?
<p>
I can understand the desire for the Afghan government's participation, but if the UN decides to
help the people of Afghanistan via non-state channels, the government will have only two
choices: to permit the aid, or to block it.  By blocking it, it would help no one in
Afghanistan and would incur condemnation.  Either way, it would look bad, and the UN would be
seen to be helpful and dutiful.

<p>
 


title: Mozilla censorship-bypass allowance, RUS
uri: Mozilla-censorship-bypass-allowance-RUS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_June_2024_(Mozilla_censorship-bypass_allowance,_RUS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_June_2024_(Mozilla_censorship-bypass_allowance,_RUS)

content:
 
<p>
Mozilla has deactivated the blockage that it had placed on downloading certain
<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/mozilla_firefox_russia/">anti-censorship
add-ons</a> from computers in Russia.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_June_2024_(Clamping_down_on_Taiwanese,_CHI)
title: Clamping down on Taiwanese, CHI
uri: Clamping-down-on-Taiwanese-CHI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_June_2024_(Clamping_down_on_Taiwanese,_CHI)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/22/china-threatens-death-penalty-for-taiwan-independence-diehards">China
threatens</a> to execute Taiwanese for advocating Taiwan's independence, if it gets its hands
on them.
<p>
I expect that some day, perhaps a few years from now, China will arrest Taiwanese tourists and
sentence them to death on the basis of social media postings from the past.  After a
Chinese-style bogus trial, of course.
<p>
It would be appropriate for Taiwan to criminalize advocacy of war against Taiwan.  This way, if
China seizes Taiwanese hostages to threaten, Taiwan could seize some Chinese hostages in return.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_June_2024_(Two-unseparated-states_soln,_ISR)
title: Two-unseparated-states solution, ISR
uri: Two-unseparated-states-solution-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#25_June_2024_(Two-unseparated-states_soln,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
Yanis Varoufakis: establishing a state of Palestine should not aim for symmetrical two-way
apartheid; the proper goal is to
<a href="https://kathmandupost.com/columns/2024/05/30/strict-separation-is-not-the-answer">bring the two groups closer together</a>.
<p>
Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_June_2024_(Photojournalist_Linda_Tirado)
title: Photojournalist Linda Tirado
uri: Photojournalist-Linda-Tirado
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_June_2024_(Photojournalist_Linda_Tirado)
content:
 
<p>
Photojournalist Linda Tirado was covering a protest about the murder of George Floyd when a
uniformed thug <!---->shot her in the eye, perhaps with a tear gas canister.  She is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/24/linda-tirado-journalist-shot-police-protests-hospice">now
dying from the damage</a> that did to her brain.
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> know from their training that firing a gas canister at someone's face
is likely to kill.  That one should be charged with murder.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_June_2024_(New_PFAS_regulations,_CO)
title: New PFAS regulations, CO
uri: New-PFAS-regulations-CO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_June_2024_(New_PFAS_regulations,_CO)
content:
 
<p>
Colorado's new law will regulate
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/24/colorado-law-ban-pfas">sale
of products</a> that contain PFAS.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Candidates for reducing nuclear tensions
uri: Urgent-Candidates-for-reducing-nuclear-tensions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_June_2024_(Urgent:_Candidates_for_reducing_nuclear_tensions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#26_June_2024_(Urgent:_Candidates_for_reducing_nuclear_tensions)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/nukes-debate">call on CNN</a> to ask candidates how
they would reduce nuclear tensions.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_June_2024_(Julian_Assange_is_now_free)
title: Julian Assange is now free
uri: Julian-Assange-is-now-free
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_June_2024_(Julian_Assange_is_now_free)
content:
 
<p>
Julian Assange has accepted a plea bargain according to which he will be sentenced to the time
he has already spent in Belmarch prison.  (One charge has been filed already by the US for him
to plead guilty to.)  He is now supposed to go to the Mariana Islands (near Guam) to plead
guilty and be
<a href="https://apnews.com/article/assange-plea-deal-wikileaks-justice-department-d329ba4614dbfa77b5eb968d07fd9bd0">sentenced
to "time served"</a>, and then leave for Australia.
<p>
Reportedly
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/06/24/julian-assange-plea-deal-biden/">Australia's
support for Assange</a> played a major part in convincing the US to agree to this deal.
<p>
I am very glad for Assange for being out of prison, but I am alarmed that the danger of being
treated similarly will face other journalists and publishers in the future.  If the US had
prosecuted the perpetrators of the actions in the "collateral murder" video, none of this would
have been necessary.
<p>
The plea deal requires approval from the judge.  I wonder what will happen to Assange if the
judge declines to accept the deal.  Could he be sent to a US prison to await trial?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_June_2024_(Starvation_days_in_Gaza)
title: Starvation days in Gaza
uri: Starvation-days-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_June_2024_(Starvation_days_in_Gaza)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/gaza-households-hunger-draft-un-report">One
in five households</a> in Gaza go whole days without food, draft UN report says.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_June_2024_(Israeli_influnce_funds,_US)
title: Israeli-influence funds, US
uri: Israeli-influence-funds-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_June_2024_(Israeli_influnce_funds,_US)
content:
 
<p>
Documents show Israeli-influence funds
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/israel-fund-us-university-protest-gaza-antisemitism">target
US college campuses</a> and push to redefine antisemitism in US law.
<p>
The
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#23_May_2024_(Antisemitism_as_the_new_McCarthyism)">redefinition
they push</a> for is to adopt the distorted IHRA criterion for judging antisemitism.
<p>
I think it would be justified for Biden to take an action to block or punish this influence attempt &mdash; something
sharp enough that Netanyahu will conclude he is going too far and must stop.

<p>
 


title: More floods in CHI-GD, drought in CHI-HA
uri: More-floods-in-CHI-GD-drought-in-CHI-HA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_June_2024_(More_floods_in_CHI-GD,_drought_in_CHI-HA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_June_2024_(More_floods_in_CHI-GD,_drought_in_CHI-HA)

content:
 
<p>
*Southern
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/weather-tracker-southern-china-floods-north-suffers-drought">China
hit</a> by floods as north suffers from drought.*
<p>
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2024-jan-apr.html#15_April_2024_(Coal_burning_up,_China)">Last
I heard</a>, China was rapidly increasing its burning of coal, so its own actions are partly
responsible for these twin disasters.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_June_2024_(Cease-fire_rejected,_ISR)
title: US-backed ceasefire rejected, ISR
uri: US-backed-ceasefire-rejected-ISR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#27_June_2024_(Cease-fire_rejected,_ISR)
content:
 
<p>
Netanyahu rejected the idea of a lasting cease fire in Gaza. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/intense-phase-israel-war-hamas-near-end-benjamin-netanyahu">He
spoke of "pauses"</a> but it is not clear that those would allow in enough aid to save
Palestinians from dying from shortages.
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I think that whatever Netanyahu says about what he will or might do in the future is bullshit,
just as if it came from <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a>.  Furthermore, since Netanyahu wants
the wrecker to win<!---->
the election, he will say whatever will cause trouble for Biden now.  As long as Biden doesn't dare
to do defy Netanyahu in something with consequences, Netanyahu will drag Biden around on a
chain and he may indeed lose.
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Let's not lose sight of
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html">where we want to end up</a>.

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