# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Evolving_the_English_language)
title: Evolving the English language
uri: Evolving-the-English-language
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Evolving_the_English_language)
content:
 
<p>
Calling on people to choose carefully
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-02-28/dilbert-scott-adams-roald-dahl-language-woke-stanford-elimination-harmful-words">which words to use or avoid</a>.
<p>
I was glad to see another that criticizes the use of "appropriate" as
an accusation as a "bludgeon."  The term is subjective and vague, so
it lends itself to bullying and harassment by people who try to impose
their views demands on everyone else.
<p>
In regard to the expression "you guys", that used to imply aduly men
only.  However, since a few decades ago I've often heard it used for
groups of adult women as well.  Maybe it is no longer incorrect
for the author's classes.
<p>
But we don't have a good base word for names of groups of adults of
various genders.  "Person" tends to make the compound words too long
and cumbersome.
<p>
How about "mensch", copied from German?  How would you feel about
being called a "firemensch"?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Rethinking_Brexit)
title: Rethinking Brexit
uri: Rethinking-Brexit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Rethinking_Brexit)
content:
 
<p>
Most Britons have recognized that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/05/even-sunak-seems-to-like-the-single-market-so-why-doesnt-labour">leaving the EU</a>
was an economic disaster.
  Yet neither major party advocates undoing the disaster, which would
be easy enough with a simple agreement.  The Tories have accepted making such
an agreement limited to Northern Ireland; since all of the UK would benefit
from that, there is no reason except fantasies to refuse.
<p>
Britons should have listed to Corbyn, who stated that a customs union
would be his goal.
<p>
An agreement limited to trade won't correct all the problems caused by
leaving the EU.  <a href="/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_January_2023_(Climate_protesters,_UK)">For instance</a>, the Tories are about to
make a <a href="/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(UK_to_deport_refugees_arriving_in_boats)">human rights disaster</a>
too.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Mormon_church_risk_strategy)
title: Mormon church risk strategy
uri: Mormon-church-risk-strategy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Mormon_church_risk_strategy)
content:
 
<p>
The Mormon church was fined $5 million for
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/mormon-church-multibillion-investment-fund-sec-settlement-rcna71603">concealing investments</a>
amounting to around $30 billion.
  The concealment lasted over 20 years.
<p>
Is this fine large enough to deter such crimes?  I doubt it.
<p>
Perhaps long-term concealment of data that are supposed to be reported
annually should result in an annual fine.  That way, the total fine
would be around $100 million.  But that would only 0.3% of the amount
concealed &mdash; still too small, I think.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Political_censorship,_TX_doctors)
title: Political censorship, TX doctors
uri: Political-censorship-TX-doctors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Political_censorship,_TX_doctors)
content:
 
<p>
Doctors in Texas are terrified of the repression around abortions;
<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/01/1158364163/3-abortion-bans-in-texas-leave-doctors-talking-in-code-to-pregnant-patients">they don't dare say the word</a>
to a patient, even when the patient
needs an abortion for medical reasons.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Blogging_as_lobbying,_FL)
title: Blogging as lobbying, FL
uri: Blogging-as-lobbying-FL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Blogging_as_lobbying,_FL)
content:
 
<p>
Florida Republicans have proposed a law saying that bloggers who are
paid to write about elected officials
<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/florida-blogger-registration-law/">must register as lobbyists</a>.
<p>
I have a suspicion that registration will require running nonfree
Javascript, and paying likewise.  That is definitely an injustice.
However, is it an injustice to require them to register?
<p>
I don't think that people who are paid to write articles for or
against an elected official are considered lobbyists if it is
not for their own blogs.  If I am right about that, it is unjust
to impose that requirement specificly on individual bloggers.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Bakhmut_strategy,_Ukraine)
title: Bakhmut strategy, Ukraine
uri: Bakhmut-strategy-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Bakhmut_strategy,_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>
Zelenskiy said Ukraine will
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/07/russia-ukraine-war-at-a-glance-what-we-know-on-day-377-of-the-invasion">never abandon Bakhmut</a>.
<p>
The policy of "no retreats," or "defend territory at all costs," is
likely to be disastrous in war.  Such inflexibility makes an army
vulnerable.  Bachmut is worth nothing to Ukraine for the war unless
defending it gives Ukraine a tactical advantage.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Child_rearing,_a_study)
title: Child rearing, a study
uri: Child-rearing-a-study
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Child_rearing,_a_study)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/06/children-of-same-sex-couples-fare-at-least-as-well-as-in-other-families-study">Same-sex couples</a>
do as well in raising children as different-sex
couples.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Gulf_of_Mexico,_oil_extraction)
title: Gulf of Mexico, oil extraction
uri: Gulf-of-Mexico-oil-extraction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Gulf_of_Mexico,_oil_extraction)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/groups-sue-to-stop-biden-lease-sale-259">Groups Sue</a>
to Stop Biden From Offering 73 Million Acres to Oil
 Drillers in Gulf of Mexico.*



<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Urgent:_Abortion_pill_availability)
title: Urgent: Abortion pill availability
uri: Urgent-Abortion-pill-availability
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Urgent:_Abortion_pill_availability)
content:
 
<p>
<p>US citizens: call on U.S.
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/pharmacies_abortion/">pharmacies to provide abortion pills</a>
to
customers; don't let Republican bullies convince you to cut them off.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Urgent:_Okefenokee_swamp,_GA)
title: Urgent: Okefenokee swamp, GA
uri: Urgent-Okefenokee-swamp-GA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Urgent:_Okefenokee_swamp,_GA)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53674&supporter_KEY=229474&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:117388&utm_campaign=AME4-SCNS:SPECPLCCNS-0223&utm_content=EM9:00C:0HH-AAE">block
mining near the Okefenokee swamp</a>, which is a wildlife reservation.
<p>
To sign without running nonfree JavaScript
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">code</a>
   from the web site,
use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Single_payer_medical)
title: Single payer medical
uri: Single-payer-medical
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Single_payer_medical)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/expanded-and-improved-medicare-for-all-act    ">Calling for improvements</a>
when the Medicare-for-all bill is reintroduced in this Congress.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Fascist_coup_strategy,_US)
title: Fascist coup strategy, US
uri: Fascist-coup-strategy-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Fascist_coup_strategy,_US)
content:
 
<p>
Republican fascists are
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/january-6-dress-rehearsal">infiltrating the institutions</a>
of power in the
US, aiming for a position where they can win some sort of coup.

<p>
 


title: Indigenous housing in protected forest
uri: Indigenous-housing-in-protected-forest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Indigenous_housing_in_protected_forest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Indigenous_housing_in_protected_forest)

content:
 
<p>
A group of indigenous Australians in New South Wales want to build
housing on an area of forest that needs protection.  The state
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/08/nsw-coalition-accused-of-racism-and-paternalism-after-pledge-to-stop-controversial-development">government blocked the plan</a>,
so they played the "indigenous card."
<p>
The government of New South Wales is right-wing, and in general fails
to defend the environment.  That means it often deserves criticism.
This seems to be an unusual case where it did defend the environment.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Reservist_revolt,_Israel)
title: Reservist revolt, Israel
uri: Reservist-revolt-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Reservist_revolt,_Israel)
content:
 
<p>
*Israeli military reservists
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/07/israeli-military-reservists-refuse-train-protest-far-right-government">refuse to train</a>
in protest at far-right government.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(A_response_to_rampant_misogyny_)
title: A response to rampant misogyny
uri: A-response-to-rampant-misogyny
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(A_response_to_rampant_misogyny_)
content:
 
<p>
Teenage girls are developing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/07/laura-bates-for-teenage-girls-escaping-harassment-revenge-porn-and-deepfake-porn-is-impossible">social structures and institutions</a>
to a plague
of harassment by the many misogynist teenage boys.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Mental_health_provisions,_Jamaica_)
title: Mental health provisions, Jamaica
uri: Mental-health-provisions-Jamaica
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Mental_health_provisions,_Jamaica_)
content:
 
<p>
Jamaica has got good results from treating the vast majority of the
mentally ill
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/mar/07/jamaica-mental-healthcare-innovative-grateful-son-not-wasting-away-acc">without hospitalization</a>.
<p>
With mental illness increasing in other countries, maybe that approach
would be good to adopt.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Lukashenko,_linchpin_of_Putin)
title: Lukashenko, linchpin of Putin
uri: Lukashenko-linchpin-of-Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Lukashenko,_linchpin_of_Putin)
content:
 
<p>
The exiled
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/07/belarus-ukraine-alexander-lukashenko-vladimir-putin">leader of Belarusian opposition</a>
suggests that putting more pressure
on Lukashenko, the dictator of Belarus and Putin's flunky, will help defeat
Putin's attack on Ukraine.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Stock_buybacks)
title: Stock buybacks
uri: 2023-03-09-Stock-buybacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Stock_buybacks)
content:
 
<p>
How stock buybacks
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/warren-buffett-is-dead-wrong-about">harm the public</a>
and the nation.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(High_seas_treaty)
title: High seas treaty
uri: High-seas-treaty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(High_seas_treaty)
content:
 
<p>
What the newly agreed
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/06/un-high-seas-treaty-is-a-triumph-but-it-will-need-teeth-to-be-effective">global ocean treaty needs</a>
in order to be effective.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Methane_carbon-bombs)
title: Methane carbon-bombs
uri: Methane-carbon-bombs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Methane_carbon-bombs)
content:
 
<p>
*Defusing "Methane Bombs"
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/defusing-methane-bombs-averting-climate-catastrophe">Key to Averting Climate Catastrophe</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Twitter accounts supporting the bullshitter
uri: Twitter-accounts-supporting-the-bullshitter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Twitter_accounts_supporting_the_bullshitter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Twitter_accounts_supporting_the_bullshitter)

content:
 
<p>

Thousands of Twitter accounts, which appear not to represent real
people, are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/07/pro-trump-bots-attack-rivals-haley-desantis">supporting the bullshitter and criticizing the other
    Republican candidates</a>.

 


title: Overuse of fertilizer stimulating growth of sargassum seaweed
uri: Overuse-of-fertilizer-stimulating-growth-of-sargassum-seaweed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Overuse_of_fertilizer_stimulating_growth_of_sargassum_seaweed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Overuse_of_fertilizer_stimulating_growth_of_sargassum_seaweed)

content:
 
<p>

Overuse of fertilizer on three continents is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/07/great-atlantic-sargassum-belt-seaweed-visible-from-space">stimulating the growth of
    floating sargassum seaweed</a>.  Tons float onto coasts, producing toxins
and harming land animals including humans.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Single-use_water_bottles)
title: Single-use water bottles
uri: Single-use-water-bottles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Single-use_water_bottles)
content:
 
<p>

The typical single-use water bottle <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/07/great-great-grandfather-plastic-pollution-drinking-fountain-bottles">uses up a lot more water than it
    can contain</a>.
<p>
I try hard to avoid single-use water bottles, using them only as a
last resort.  As a result, the number I use per year in the US is just
a handful.  Even in Europe I don't use them often.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Criminalizing_use_of_abortion_pills)
title: Criminalizing use of abortion pills
uri: Criminalizing-use-of-abortion-pills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Criminalizing_use_of_abortion_pills)
content:
 
<p>

  Florida Republicans will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/florida-gop-six-week-abortion-ban">criminalize the taking of abortion pills</a>.
<p>
There is an exception for rape an incest but you have to prove somehow
that it was rape or incest &mdash; very difficult to do.
<p>
"Exceptions to abortion bans are often useless and are only included
to make extreme restrictions seem more reasonable."

 


title: Choosing sacrifice on rich or sacrifice on poor
uri: Choosing-sacrifice-on-rich-or-sacrifice-on-poor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Choosing_sacrifice_on_rich_or_sacrifice_on_poor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_March_2023_(Choosing_sacrifice_on_rich_or_sacrifice_on_poor)

content:
 
<p>

  *The United States of America <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/patriotic-millionaires-bidens-medicare-tax-proposal-is-just-what-the-doctor-ordered">has to choose</a> between imposing a
sacrifice on the rich, by increasing their taxes, or imposing a
sacrifice on the poor, by decreasing their health care. The vast
majority of the people, including many rich people, want to tax the
rich.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Urgent:_Denounce_Exxon)
title: Urgent: Denounce Exxon
uri: Urgent-Denounce-Exxon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Urgent:_Denounce_Exxon)
content:
 
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-denounce-exxon-for-keeping-private-climate-change-research-from-the-public?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progress-america&source=2023Exxon_PA">denounce Exxon</a>
for keeping its research about global heating secret.
<p>
People often mispronounce the name "Exxon".
    
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Putin's_war,_an_assessment)
title: Putin's war, an assessment
uri: Putin-s-war-an-assessment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Putin's_war,_an_assessment)
content:
 
<p>
Comments on
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/01/europe/putin-ukraine-war-shift-europe-security-intl-cmd/index.html">Europe's strategic situation</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Abortion_censorship)
title: Abortion censorship
uri: Abortion-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Abortion_censorship)
content:
 
<p>
*Artwork referring to abortion [ordered] removed from
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/07/idaho-college-abortion-artwork-banned">Idaho public
 college exhibition</a>
[in the name of Idaho's censorship law.]

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Interest_rate_macroeconomics)
title: Interest rate macroeconomics
uri: Interest-rate-macroeconomics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Interest_rate_macroeconomics)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: raising interest rates is
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-relying-on-further-interest-rate">not effective for reducing
spending</a>
nowadays because most of the spending is done by rich people
who are profiting from the interest rate increases.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Holman_rule)
title: Holman rule
uri: Holman-rule
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Holman_rule)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans have changed the rules of the House of Representatives to
make it
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-06/house-republicans-government-programs-employees-fire-shut-down-holman-rule">easy to defund any specific government program</a>,
in the name of "saving money".

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Freedom_of_speech)
title: Freedom of speech
uri: 2023-03-10-Freedom-of-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Freedom_of_speech)
content:
 
<p>
A 2020 article about the need to
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-19/protests-free-speech-first-amendment">defend freedom of speech</a>
even for those
we oppose is just as pertinent today.
  Do keep in mind that "the president" criticized in this article was
the bullshitter, not Biden.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Political_unconstitutionality,_GA)
title: Political unconstitutionality, GA
uri: Political-unconstitutionality-GA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Political_unconstitutionality,_GA)
content:
 
<p>
Repression in Atlanta: protesters held a rally with music, about a
mile away from the site where Cop City is supposed to be built.  Thugs
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/03/08/atlanta-cop-city-protesters/">accused</a>
them of "domestic terrorism" for acts of vandalism which there is
no evidence those people had anything to do with.
<p>
This reminds me of the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#19_May_2017_(The_right_to_protest)">Haymarket martyrs</a>.
<p>
This calls to mind the absurd charges that fascists such as <a href="/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#15_March_2022_(Al-Jazeera_accuses_Russia_of_repression)">Putin</a>
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#5_February_2020_(Repression_of_dissent)">Modi</a>
     use to crush dissent.
<p>
These thugs are sending a message: "We are fascists with the power.
We spit on truth, justice, and law."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(War_crimes_news)
title: War crimes news
uri: War-crimes-news
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(War_crimes_news)
content:
 
<p>
The US military is allegedly refusing to give the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/08/pentagon-international-criminal-court-russia-war-crimes">International Criminal Court
evidence</a>
of Putin forces war crimes.
<p>
That action is discreditable in itself, but the motive is even more
discreditable: to protect US soldiers accused of war crimes from 
someday being prosecuted by the ICC.
<p>
The right way for a country to prevent its soldiers from being
prosecuted by the ICC is for the national government to prosecute
those war crimes.  The ICC exists as a backup method for cases
where countries fail to prosecute their own war criminals.
<p>
The US supports the right side of this conflict, but it supports
the wrong side in others, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#14_June_2022_(end_unauthorized_us_war_yemen)">including the war in Yemen</a>.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Police_as_thugs,_Louisville,_KY)
title: Police as thugs, Louisville, KY
uri: Police-as-thugs-Louisville-KY
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Police_as_thugs,_Louisville,_KY)
content:
 
<p>
An investigation found that the Louisville thug department has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/08/louisville-police-kentucky-breonna-taylor-report-key-findings">systematic tendencies toward thuggish behavior</a>,
especially towards
blacks.
<p>
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.)  I denounce bigotry, and
normally I will not link to articles that promote it.  But I make
exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important.
That article is one of the exceptions.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Medicare_provisions)
title: Medicare provisions
uri: Medicare-provisions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Medicare_provisions)
content:
 
<p>
Biden proposes to increase the Medicare tax on the rich so as to provide
sufficient funds for
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-medicare-tax-rich">Medicare until 2050</a>.


International pharmaceuticals
Big Pharma has convinced the US government to strive to the utmost
to
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/health/fda-drug-shipments-khn-partner/index.html">prevent Americans from buying prescription medicines</a>
abroad to save money.
   Medicines are more expensive in the US because the US governent has
a decades-long tradition of helping Big Pharma gouge.  Their pretext
is that people would import opioids that way, but few people try that.



 


title: International pharmaceuticals by US mail
uri: International-pharmaceuticals-by-US-mail
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(International_pharmaceuticals_by_US_mail)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(International_pharmaceuticals_by_US_mail)

content:
 
<p>
Big Pharma has convinced the US government to strive to the utmost
to
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/health/fda-drug-shipments-khn-partner/index.html">prevent Americans from buying prescription medicines</a>
abroad to save money.
   Medicines are more expensive in the US because the US government has
a decades-long tradition of helping Big Pharma gouge.  Their pretext
is that people would import opioids that way, but few people try that.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(FOX_News)
title: FOX "News"
uri: FOX-News
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(FOX_News)
content:
 
<p>
*Demand Your Cable Service Provider
<a href="https://act.progressamerica.us/ss/c/wehEm_vu1NBVXOKYSqOxTAu6vtzWssquTA1ISnFkAl5K5MScrjX3KobQWLVcVgO9EHfMlyRvynuAwd15LgwejlxifNwyY1ljuLCZN3jD3ecjM7dmCfyJ4ikOf_Ywf3Qb7VjR8l1DDqIVBQGsjYXJtSN9Tp4oIbYMDpz6GUWbcX6dDcRsoduFo5VDFx5cT5z1Jw6QPCnRXwX4Il02f0J-A_sAgjKsv8VyHvfZBrvaVgFEH4fz540fBDHJXUqJs3ksvIkH_pcXfeOBzeXip3UClt0yOtFrVy-XaOHpnHU2DkhsUMUE_kFsnelFLebSXnQ8wcNvhftGmfDKRNC90D8KbgxcKpVuYwvVoWjXc0-UndOUn5FAiVKOdajBKRIBKdRz0WzGMrv9rEtFbNd0hP61nwjEWIUjBayZVKQqbv_RHjdEOu1J_mgf73RVym078zeU/3ua/9K_VDbK0RIqr-3xMwmckNw/h1/qpk6WkDMpmDJzvKGI-EqNj2TNdkfIZ3UzhVuU-3Zk04">Make FOX News Channel Optional!</a>*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Chinese_exodus,_Darién_Gap)
title: Chinese exodus, Darién Gap
uri: Chinese-exodus-Darién-Gap
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Chinese_exodus,_Darién_Gap)
content:
 
<p>
Refugees from China are trying to get
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/09/growing-numbers-of-chinese-citizens-set-their-sights-on-the-us-via-the-deadly-darien-gap">to the US by land</a>
from Colombia.
  This just as Biden searches for policies not to ever let them in.
<p>
One person interviewed told the reporter that he would eagerly go to
Taiwan to fight a Chinese invasion.  It occurs to me that if he wants
to be able to make a real contribution to that fight, he needs to go
there now and start training.  Does anyone know whether Taiwan would
welcome volunteers who come to join its army?  Perhaps it is too hard
to be sure they are not spies or <!-- No glink:-)--> saboteurs.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Methane_labeled_green)
title: Methane labeled green
uri: Methane-labeled-green
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Methane_labeled_green)
content:
 
<p>
A rumor coming out of the US government says that it is considering a deal
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/green-gas">to promote exports</a>
of US methane to Europe by falsely labeling it as "green."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Israeli_Palestinian_conflict)
title: Israeli Palestinian conflict
uri: Israeli-Palestinian-conflict
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Israeli_Palestinian_conflict)
content:
 
<p>
Formerly interhostile Palestinian factions in the West Bank are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/08/boundaries-between-west-bank-factions-blur-as-resistance-to-israeli-occupation-grows">joining to fight Israelis</a>;
the two sides regularly kill each other.
<p>
The article describes repeated Israeli attacks as "in response to"
repeated Palestinian attacks.  That asymmetry seems arbitrary: this
looks like a cycle in which each attack inspires an attack by the
other side.  Each side is constantly retaliating for what the other
side is constantly doing, and vice versa.
<p>
If Israel had protected Palestinians who were not violent, and
respected their rights at least somewhat, the Palestinian Authority
could have validly said it was providing benefits to the Palestinians.
But Israel did not do enough to restrain its fanatics, so the
Palestinian Authority could not gain anything by recognizing Israel's
authority.
<p>
I suspect that the fanatical Israeli annexationists aim to whip up
all-out war, figuring that they can make that an opportunity for
ethnic cleansing, as Uri Avnery said was their goal.

<!-- [pol note where the article talks about this] -->

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#11_March_2023_(Global_human_rights_strategy)
title: Global human rights strategy
uri: Global-human-rights-strategy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#11_March_2023_(Global_human_rights_strategy)
content:
 
<p>
*[Rep. Ilhan] Omar Unveils Bill to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/ilhan-omar-human-rights-abusers">Block US [military] Aid</a>
to Human Rights Abusers.*
<p>
With the world dividing into blocs, and repressive regimes on every
side, I don't know if the US is in a strong enough position to refuse
alliance with all of those regimes.  I think that in the 1990s it
could have done so, but it did not give priority to that goal.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#11_March_2023_(RR_Safety_strategy:_automation)
title: RR Safety strategy: automation
uri: RR-Safety-strategy-automation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#11_March_2023_(RR_Safety_strategy:_automation)
content:
 
<p>
*Norfolk Southern's "Safety Plan" Includes Automation That
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/norfolk-southern-safety-automation">Could
 Further Endanger Workers</a>.*
<p>
It also replaces workers with machines that can't check for all the
problems human workers can spot.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#11_March_2023_(Wildfires_and_the_Ozone_layer)
title: Wildfires and the Ozone layer
uri: Wildfires-and-the-Ozone-layer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#11_March_2023_(Wildfires_and_the_Ozone_layer)
content:
 
<p>
*Smoke from Australian bushfires depleted ozone layer by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/08/smoke-from-australian-bushfires-depleted-ozone-layer-by-up-to-5-in-2020-study-finds">[3%] to 5% in
2020</a>,
study finds.*
<p>
Global heating will cause more and bigger fires, until most of the
trees are gone.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#11_March_2023_(Protesters'_legalities,_UK)
title: Protesters' legalities, UK
uri: Protesters-legalities-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#11_March_2023_(Protesters'_legalities,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Some British lawyers say that trials of protesters which
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/08/court-restrictions-on-climate-protesters-deeply-concerning-say-leading-lawyers">forbid them
to state the reasons</a>
for their actions violate their human rights.
<p>
At the very least, they are being denied the right to present a
defense of necessity or a defense of the public interest.  That in itself
is an injustice.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#11_March_2023_(Extreme_farmland_erosion)
title: Extreme farmland erosion
uri: Extreme-farmland-erosion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#11_March_2023_(Extreme_farmland_erosion)
content:
 
<p>
Large areas of farmland in New Zealand were permanently ruined for
agriculture by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/08/buried-by-mud-and-silt-new-zealands-farms-face-10-year-recovery-picture-essay">the erosion of Cyclone Gabrielle</a>.
<p>
Parts could be restored through years of work &mdash; but is it worth the trouble?
How soon will another cyclone do similar damage?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(FCC_commissioner_vacancy)
title: FCC commissioner vacancy
uri: FCC-commissioner-vacancy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(FCC_commissioner_vacancy)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/failure-to-stand-up-to-industry-orchestrated-smears-cost-fcc-and-the-nation-a-true-public-servant">Gigi Sohn withdrew</a>
from candidacy as FCC commissioner.
<p>
Shortly before her announcement, Manchin said he would refuse to
vote for her.  He has been toying with the issue sadistically
for two years.
<p>
Free Press Action describes
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/free-press-action-calls-on-the-white-house-to-heed-five-must-have-qualifications-for-the-next-fcc-nominee">the qualities</a>
that the new nominee for the
FCC should have.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Tightening_national_security)
title: Tightening national security
uri: Tightening-national-security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Tightening_national_security)
content:
 
<p>
The US is moving to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/07/white-house-bipartisan-bill-tiktok-ban">restrict "technologies"</a>
that threaten US national
security.
  Precisely what "technologies," "restrict" and "threaten" mean is not
clear.
<p>
The threat is real, but it does not come only from companies based in
certain more-or-less hostile countries.  Israel is a US ally, but
Israeli companies make products that threaten the freedom of Americans
(along with everyone else).
<p>
What's more, US companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon threaten
the national security (in a broader sense) of the US.  And even when
they are not being used in a way that threatens the security of the US,
they collect personal data about many Americans in a way that can
is often used to oppress them.
<p>
I believe the solution is to
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">prohibit</a>
the collection of personal data.
Not just "without consent," since they can always make most people
"consent."

<p>
 


title: Treat powerplant wastewater or stop burning coal
uri: Treat-powerplant-wastewater-or-stop-burning-coal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Treat_powerplant_wastewater_or_stop_burning_coal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Treat_powerplant_wastewater_or_stop_burning_coal)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/epa-proposes-improved-wastewater-treatment-standards-for-coal-fired-power-plants">EPA Proposes</a>
Improved Wastewater Treatment Standards for Coal-fired
Power Plants.*
<p>
On a global scale, pollution of water by burning coal is a secondary
problem.  It could kill millions of people over decades, whereas
greenhouse gas emissions can destroy technological civilization and
kill billions.  However, as long as coal-burning power plants exist,
we should make sure they don't pollute our water.  And this
requirement will convince many owners that it isn't worth continuing
to operate the plants.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Israel_and_South_Africa)
title: Israel and South Africa
uri: Israel-and-South-Africa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Israel_and_South_Africa)
content:
 
<p>
South Africa has decided to "downgrade" its embassy in Israel
as a rebuke for the occupation
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-south-africa">policies that amount to apartheid</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Immigration_strategy,_UK)
title: Immigration strategy, UK
uri: Immigration-strategy-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Immigration_strategy,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
The Tory plan for total repression of boat people is a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/08/the-guardian-view-on-refugee-rights-a-warning-from-history">rejection of
fundamental human rights</a>
  as well as an example of the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/07/suella-braverman-small-boats-crackdown-illegal-migrants-uk">performative cruelty</a>
used for
right-wing radicalization nowadays.
<p>
It would
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/08/what-are-the-legal-obstacles-faced-by-the-uks-migration-bill-suella-braverman">violate many important treaties</a>
with the rest of European countries.

<p>
 


title: Republican politics, shallow rationales
uri: Republican-politics-shallow-rationales
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Republican_politics,_shallow_rationales)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Republican_politics,_shallow_rationales)

content:
 
<p>
The latest
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/politics/trump-mccarthy-fox-republican-power/index.html">Faux News lie campaign</a>
has the support of House Speaker McCarthy
and helps <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Cryosphere_virology)
title: Cryosphere virology
uri: Cryosphere-virology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Cryosphere_virology)
content:
 
<p>
Scientists have successfully "revived" frozen
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/world/permafrost-virus-risk-climate-scn/index.html">viruses found in permafrost</a>
and they were able to infect cultures of amoebas.
  The scientists chose those virus because they had determined from
studying the virus DNA that amoebas were their target.
<p>
It is possible that other frozen permafrost viruses could infect
various other kinds of life.  It is not impossible that they could
cause pandemics.
<p>
However, the world is full of viruses that might do this, infecting
various kinds of animals.  It seems to me that the additional danger
of permafrost viruses is a small fraction of the danger we already face.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Mask_effectiveness)
title: Mask effectiveness
uri: Mask-effectiveness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Mask_effectiveness)
content:
 
<p>
It is difficult to do empirical studies of the effectiveness of mask
requirements, partly because there is no objective way to determine
how often any person wears a mask (or which kind, properly or not,
etc.)  A group of scientists did a meta-study and found some evidence
in favor of concluding
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/opinions/mask-mandate-cochrane-study-covid-sepkowitz-ctrp/index.html">masks reduced Covid</a>,
but not enough for real
confidence.
<p>
Then one of them, who had antimask leanings, made the bizarre claim
that the evidence supports the opposite conclusion.  But that seems to
be misleading words.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Food_pricing)
title: Food pricing
uri: Food-pricing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Food_pricing)
content:
 
<p>
When US food prices in bulk went up last year, retail businesses
raised their prices more than the commodity prices.  Now bulk prices
are decreasing, but those
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/economy/food-prices-inflation/index.html">businesses are not reducing retail prices</a>.
<p>
  The cause of this is &mdash; <a href="/archives/2018-may-aug.html#2_August_2018_(Living_from_paycheck_to_paycheck)">not enough competition</a>, after too many mergers.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(US_budget__)
title: US budget
uri: US-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(US_budget__)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/joe-biden-budget">Biden's proposed 2024 budget</a>
would improve many kinds of help for
non-rich Americans, though not as much as is needed.
<p>
It also
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/09/joe-biden-federal-budget-cutting-deficit">reduces future deficits</a>,
by increasing taxes on the rich.
<p>
It will not be easy to get any of this through the
Republican-controlled House of Representatives, nor through the Senate
where Manchin can block it.  Robert Reich says that Biden knows it is
impossible and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/09/republicans-debt-tax-cuts-biden">the point of it</a>
is to present his goals and to influence negotiations.
<p>
Those are useful things to do to influence the outcome.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Oceanic_plastics_pollution)
title: Oceanic plastics pollution
uri: Oceanic-plastics-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Oceanic_plastics_pollution)
content:
 
<p>
The amount of microplastics in the ocean is
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/ocean-plastic-pollution-treaty">growing exponentially</a>.
As long as so much microplastic is being dumped, attempts to clean
up the ocean are futile.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(RR_safety,_nationalization)
title: RR safety, nationalization
uri: RR-safety-nationalization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(RR_safety,_nationalization)
content:
 
<p>
US railroad workers call for nationalization of the railroads
on the grounds that billionaire stockholding
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/nationalize-the-railways">executives will 
always skimp on public safety</a>
for the stockholders.

<p>
 


title: Nuclear powerplants require external power
uri: Nuclear-powerplants-require-external-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Nuclear_powerplants_require_external_power)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Nuclear_powerplants_require_external_power)

content:
 
<p>
Every time external power to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is
cut off, it risks leading to a
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/iaea-chief-ukraine-nuclear-plant">meltdown that would pollute</a>
a large region.
<p>
It is easy to say that we "can't allow this to continue," but we have
no obvious way to stop it except for Ukraine to surrender to Putin.
the challenge is to find a way to reduce the danger that Ukraine and
Putin will both accept.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Union_win,_MI)
title: Union win, MI
uri: Union-win-MI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Union_win,_MI)
content:
 
<p>
Michigan has
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/michigan-is-once-again-a-pro-worker-pro-union-state">repealed the Republican law</a>
that allows businesses to
hire workers that don't pay dues to support the union.  That law gave
businesses another way to attack unions.

<p>
 


title: Coffee bean yields and the environment
uri: Coffee-bean-yields-and-the-environment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Coffee_bean_yields_and_the_environment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Coffee_bean_yields_and_the_environment)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/09/rising-temperatures-in-tropics-to-lead-to-lower-coffee-yields-and-higher-prices-study-suggests">Rising temperatures in tropics</a>
to lead to lower coffee yields and higher
prices, study suggests.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#11_March_2023_(Wildfires_and_the_ozone_layer)
title: Wildfires and the ozone layer
uri: Wildfires-and-the-ozone-layer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#11_March_2023_(Wildfires_and_the_ozone_layer)
content:
 
<p>
*Smoke from Australian bushfires depleted ozone layer by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/08/smoke-from-australian-bushfires-depleted-ozone-layer-by-up-to-5-in-2020-study-finds">[3%] to 5% in
2020</a>,
study finds.*
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> will cause more and bigger fires, until most of the
trees are gone.

<p>
 


title: Jurisdictional battles over abortion
uri: Jurisdictional-battles-over-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Jurisdictional_battles_over_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Jurisdictional_battles_over_abortion)

content:
 
<p>
Right-wingers plan to ask the Supreme Court to enforce the
long-disused
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/09/pastor-push-national-abortion-ban-sanctuary-cities-for-the-unborn">Comstock Act to prohibit mailing</a>
abortion pills and
abortion information.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Fossil_fuel_funding,_UK)
title: Fossil fuel funding, UK
uri: Fossil-fuel-funding-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Fossil_fuel_funding,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
*Fossil fuels received £20bn more UK support than renewables since 2015.*
<p>
*One-fifth
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/09/fossil-fuels-more-support-uk-than-renewables-since-2015">of money given directly</a>
to fossil fuel industry
was to support new extraction and mining.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_((Satire)_School_meals)
title: (Satire) School meals
uri: (Satire)-School-meals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_((Satire)_School_meals)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *[Governor] Ron
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/ron-desantis-oversees-program-offering-florida-students-1850205055">DeSantis Oversees Program</a>
Offering Florida Students Free Force-Fed Meals.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(House_Republicans'_debt_ceiling)
title: House Republicans' debt ceiling
uri: House-Republicans-debt-ceiling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(House_Republicans'_debt_ceiling)
content:
 
<p>
*House Freedom Caucus Economic Hostage-Takers
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/freedom-caucus-debt-ceiling-demands">Issue Latest Ransom Demands</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Nord_Stream_bombing)
title: Nord Stream bombing
uri: Nord-Stream-bombing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Nord_Stream_bombing)
content:
 
<p>
Comparing various stories about which opponents of Putin bombed the
Nord Stream pipelines and
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/03/10/nord-stream-pipeline-bombing/">what relationship</a>
they had with the US
government.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Violence_against_protesters,_Canada)
title: Violence against protesters, Canada
uri: Violence-against-protesters-Canada
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Violence_against_protesters,_Canada)
content:
 
<p>
Canadian "mounted" thugs are being investigated for cruel violence
towards
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/10/canada-police-unit-excessive-force-environmental-activists">environmental protesters</a>.


<p>
 


title: Carry your fetus to term or be a criminal
uri: Carry-your-fetus-to-term-or-be-a-criminal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_March_2023_(Carry_your_fetus_to_term_or_be_a_criminal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_March_2023_(Carry_your_fetus_to_term_or_be_a_criminal)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/10/republican-wave-state-bills-homicide-charges">Right-wing religious fanatics</a>
in several states propose bills to prosecute
women for having abortions.
  In the past, anti-abortionists said they did not want to do this.
But success encourages fanatics to compete to see who can be the most
extreme.

<p>
 


title: Fox-in-henhouse Conservative cronyism, UK
uri: Fox-in-henhouse-Conservative-cronyism-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Fox-in-henhouse_Conservative_cronyism,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Fox-in-henhouse_Conservative_cronyism,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
Tories appointed
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/10/ex-tory-minister-tried-sell-off-forests-natural-england-role-caroline-spelman">a former minister of deforestation</a>
to work for
"Natural England", whose mission is to protect nature in England.
<p>
You can't get more blatant contempt for the nation and the people
than this.

<p>
 


title: A China brokered Iran-Saudi agreement
uri: A-China-brokered-Iran-Saudi-agreement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(A_China_brokered_Iran-Saudi_agreement)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(A_China_brokered_Iran-Saudi_agreement)

content:
 
<p>
*Iran and Saudi Arabia
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/10/iran-saudi-arabia-agree-restore-ties-china-talks">agree to restore ties</a>
after China-brokered talks.*
<p>
A priori, this decrease in hostility could reduce conflict in the
middle east.  It might lead the way to more reconciliations, such as
perhaps peace in Yemen.
<p>
However, both of those governments are fanatical Islamists.  If they join
forces for religious repression, that will not be good for the world.

<p>
 


title: David Attenborough episode censured, BBC
uri: David-Attenborough-episode-censured-BBC
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(David_Attenborough_episode_censured,_BBC)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(David_Attenborough_episode_censured,_BBC)

content:
 
<p>
The BBC has surrendered to right-wing pressure by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears">refusing to
broadcast a David Attenborough program</a>
that would make right-wingers
angry.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Carbon_offsets:_a_redesign)
title: Carbon offsets: a redesign
uri: Carbon-offsets-a-redesign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Carbon_offsets:_a_redesign)
content:
 
<p>
Verra, which organizes many suspect "carbon offsets" whose validity is
now recognized as questionable, says
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/10/biggest-carbon-credit-certifier-replace-rainforest-offsets-scheme-verra-aoe">it will redesign the offset
system</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Too-hot_fires,_US_West)
title: Too-hot fires, US West
uri: Too-hot-fires-US-West
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Too-hot_fires,_US_West)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/10/us-west-megafire-drought-heat-killing-conifer-seedling-study">Hotter fires are</a>
not just burning the existing conifers in parts of
the US west, they are also killing seedlings so that no new conifers
can grow.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Artificial_turf,_cancerous)
title: Artificial turf, cancerous
uri: Artificial-turf-cancerous
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Artificial_turf,_cancerous)
content:
 
<p>
Artificial turf is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/10/phillies-ball-players-cancer-artifical-turf">suspected of causing cancer</a>.

<p>
 


title: UK and US role to help democracy in Afghanistan
uri: UK-and-US-role-to-help-democracy-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(UK_and_US_role_to_help_democracy_in_Afghanistan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(UK_and_US_role_to_help_democracy_in_Afghanistan)

content:
 
<p>

Suggesting that the UK and the US help Afghan civil society organize
with a view towards possible <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/09/britain-promised-afghanistan-losing-focus-risk">future opportunities for democracy there</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(The_US_system_of_guest_workers)
title: The US system of "guest workers"
uri: The-US-system-of-guest-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(The_US_system_of_guest_workers)
content:
 
<p>

The US system of "guest workers" funnels hundreds of thousands of
foreign workers into a system of low-wage temporary work that in
that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/10/the-great-escape-saket-soni-mississippi-human-trafficking-india">verges on slavery</a>.
  In some cases it is effectively slavery.

 


title: US central bank poised to cause hardship
uri: US-central-bank-poised-to-cause-hardship
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(US_central_bank_poised_to_cause_hardship)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(US_central_bank_poised_to_cause_hardship)

content:
 
<p>

*The US central bank is poised to cause <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/08/federal-reserve-interest-rate-rise-jerome-powell">untold hardship to millions of
    Americans</a>.*
<p>
  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#16_November_2021_(Federal_Reserve_chair)">This was predictable</a> when Biden reappointed the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#s-i-c"><a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#saboteur">saboteur</a>-in-chief's</a>
appointee to continue as its chief.

 


title: Push to end US military presence in Syria
uri: Push-to-end-US-military-presence-in-Syria
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Push_to_end_US_military_presence_in_Syria)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Push_to_end_US_military_presence_in_Syria)

content:
 
<p>

  *Progressives Back Bipartisan Push to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/progressives-bipartisan-syria-war-powers">End US Military Presence in Syria</a>.*
<p>
I am not sure exactly what US troops are doing nowadays in Syria, and
perhaps there is no reason for part of their mission.  But the US
should help protect the Kurds of Rojava, including with troops so that
Turkey and Syria won't attack them.

 


title: "Gender apartheid" as crime under international law
uri: Gender-apartheid-as-crime-under-international-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Gender_apartheid_as_crime_under_international_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Gender_apartheid_as_crime_under_international_law)

content:
 
<p>

  *Campaign calls for "gender apartheid" to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/08/campaign-calls-for-gender-apartheid-to-be-under-international-law">crime under international law</a>.*
<p>
I agree with the substance of this proposal, but "apartheid" is the
wrong word for extreme patriarchal.  Calling it that distorts the
meaning of the word "apartheid."  That word's fundamental idea is
<em>separation</em>, and extreme patriarchy does not try to divide up men
from women as if they were two separate peoples that should never mix.

 


title: Lobbying to weaken EU campaign to reduce fossil fuels
uri: Lobbying-to-weaken-EU-campaign-to-reduce-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Lobbying_to_weaken_EU_campaign_to_reduce_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Lobbying_to_weaken_EU_campaign_to_reduce_fossil_fuels)

content:
 
<p>

Planet-roaster businesses are lobbying the EU to weaken its
campaign to reduce fossil fuels for heating so that it would
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/07/gas-industry-lobbying-eu-boiler-phaseout-leaked-emails-suggest">allow biofuels, and hydrogen made from fossil fuels</a>.
<p>
  Biofuels as they currently exist either <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#25_March_2021_(When_biomass_means_wood_chips)">cause deforestation</a> (wood chips)
  or <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#26_July_2019_(Increasing_industrial_agriculture)">compete with farming food</a> (corn products).
  They should be eliminated too.
<p>
If we can ever make fuel from the waste products of farming, they
might be better.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(How_to_break_the_Xi-Putin_axis)
title: How to break the Xi-Putin axis
uri: How-to-break-the-Xi-Putin-axis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(How_to_break_the_Xi-Putin_axis)
content:
 
<p>

  *How to break the Xi-Putin axis? <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2023/mar/12/how-to-break-the-xi-putin-axis-biden-must-engage-with-beijing">Biden must engage with Beijing</a>.*
<p>
That is good advice for the first step, but it isn't a map to the desired
destination.

 


title: (satire) SpaceX crew member locked out of capsule
uri: (satire)-SpaceX-crew-member-locked-out-of-capsule
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_((satire)_SpaceX_crew_member_locked_out_of_capsule)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_((satire)_SpaceX_crew_member_locked_out_of_capsule)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/spacex-crew-member-realizes-he-fired-after-being-locked-1850213418">*SpaceX Crew Member Realizes He [had been] Fired After Being
    Locked Out Of Capsule.*</a>

 


title: (satire) Mitch McConnell bankrupted by stay in hospital
uri: (satire)-Mitch-McConnell-bankrupted-by-stay-in-hospital
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_((satire)_Mitch_McConnell_bankrupted_by_stay_in_hospital)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_((satire)_Mitch_McConnell_bankrupted_by_stay_in_hospital)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/mitch-mcconnell-bankrupted-by-3-day-stay-in-hospital-1850213322">*Mitch McConnell Bankrupted By 3-Day Stay In Hospital.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Silicon_Valley_Bank's_collapse)
title: Silicon Valley Bank's collapse
uri: Silicon-Valley-Bank-s-collapse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Silicon_Valley_Bank's_collapse)
content:
 
<p>

  Silicon Valley Bank's collapse <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-used-former-mccarthy-staffers-to-weaken-regulations-lobby-fdic/">would have been prevented</a> by the former
bank regulations that Republicans eliminated in 2018.

 


title: Women in Texas being sued for helping woman to obtain abortion pills
uri: Women-in-Texas-being-sued-for-helping-woman-to-obtain-abortion-pills
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Women_in_Texas_being_sued_for_helping_woman_to_obtain_abortion_pills)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_(Women_in_Texas_being_sued_for_helping_woman_to_obtain_abortion_pills)

content:
 
<p>

Three women allegedly helped another woman obtain abortion pills which
she used in Texas.  Her ex-husband is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/11/texas-women-sued-wrongful-death-abortion">suing the three for a million
    dollars</a> for "killing" the fetus.
<p>
I wonder how he got ahold of their text messages.
<p>
Unless those women have quite high incomes, his winning this case
would leave them in poverty for the rest of their lives.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Oil_dependence)
title: Oil dependence
uri: Oil-dependence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Oil_dependence)
content:
 
<p>
The history of the end of dependence on
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/11/the-first-great-energy-transition-how-humanity-gave-up-whaling">whale oil</a>
may have lessons for
the end of dependence on fossil fuels.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Special Julian Assange documentary
uri: Urgent-Special-Julian-Assange-documentary
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Urgent:_Special_Julian_Assange_documentary)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Urgent:_Special_Julian_Assange_documentary)

content:
 
<p>
Thru April 16.
<p>
A documentary about Julian Assange is touring US cinemas.
<a href="https://assangedefense.org/ithaka/">The tour</a>
continues till mid-April.
<p>
Each showing is followed by a Q&amp;A discussion with
Julian's father and/or his brother.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Taxing_by_the_ability_to_pay)
title: Taxing by the ability to pay
uri: Taxing-by-the-ability-to-pay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Taxing_by_the_ability_to_pay)
content:
 
<p>
In calculating various people's
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/fact-check-joe-biden-on-taxes">effective tax rate</a>,
there are
decisions to make.  Deciding wrong leads to giant confusion.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Snowmaggedon_plus_some,_CA)
title: Snowmaggedon plus some, CA
uri: Snowmaggedon-plus-some-CA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Snowmaggedon_plus_some,_CA)
content:
 
<p>
A
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/11/california-mountain-towns-snowstorm-weather">heavy snowfall in California</a>
is crushing trees and buildings.
<p>
The heavy storms in California result from global heating.  This won't
be the last one that drops snow instead of rain.  I have a feeling
that in isolated mountain areas most of the inhabitants will have to
move away.
<p>
Heavy rains may reduce the fire danger, if they are frequent enough.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Lifeworks_of_hard_lives)
title: Lifeworks of hard lives
uri: Lifeworks-of-hard-lives
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Lifeworks_of_hard_lives)
content:
 
<p>
The US continues to hold on to art done by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/11/guantanamo-detained-art-joe-biden-work-state">prisoners in Guantanamo</a>
even when prisoners are allowed to leave.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Enshittification)
title: Enshittification
uri: Enshittification
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Enshittification)
content:
 
<p>
Online services that allow advertising tend to pass through a
transformation known as
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/11/users-advertisers-we-are-all-trapped-in-the-enshittification-of-the-internet">"enshittification</a>".
<p>
First, the service shows users what they want to see.  Then it shows
users with high priority whatever businesses pay it to show them.
Finally, it shows users with even higher priority whatever will keep
them spending more time on the site &mdash; at which point the users and
the advertisers hate it but feel they don't have an option to refuse.
<p>
I do refuse.  It just happens that these disservices tend to require
users to run nonfree client software, and I refuse to do it.  Thus,
by defending my control over my computing, I avoid the shit too.
<p>
I think that the key to ending enshittification is to pass laws to
change the funding model.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Proposed_Railway_Safety_Act)
title: Proposed Railway Safety Act
uri: Proposed-Railway-Safety-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Proposed_Railway_Safety_Act)
content:
 
<p>

  The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/railway-safety-act">proposed Railway Safety Act</a> is a change for the better, but it
has flaws that need to be fixed.

 


title: Far-Right's culture wars are a distraction
uri: Far-Right-s-culture-wars-are-a-distraction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Far-Right's_culture_wars_are_a_distraction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Far-Right's_culture_wars_are_a_distraction)

content:
 
<p>

  *The Far-Right's Culture Wars Are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/far-right-culture-war-working-class">Just a Distraction</a> So Oligarchs Can
 Keep Looting the Working Class.*
<p>
I agree that that is a large part of the purpose of these "culture wars,"
but they do have a secondary purpose: to radicalize supporters so that they
give way completely to hatred.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Guardrails_against_greed)
title: Guardrails against greed
uri: Guardrails-against-greed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Guardrails_against_greed)
content:
 
<p>

  Robert Reich: <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/greed-needs-guardrails">*The Guardrails Against Greed Capitalism Must Have.*</a>

 


title: Airline lobbying to cut taxes on flying
uri: Airline-lobbying-to-cut-taxes-on-flying
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Airline_lobbying_to_cut_taxes_on_flying)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Airline_lobbying_to_cut_taxes_on_flying)

content:
 
<p>

The British government's stated commitment to reduce greenhouse emissions
was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/12/revealed-uk-airline-industrys-push-for-ultra-low-prices-on-domestic-flights">unable to stand up to airline lobbying</a> to cut taxes on flying.
<p>
This also shows that the supposed need to limit the deficit
is limited to the people who don't count (for Tories), and
doesn't apply when interests that are really important want a boost.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(FBI_bought_location_tracking_data)
title: FBI bought location tracking data
uri: FBI-bought-location-tracking-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(FBI_bought_location_tracking_data)
content:
 
<p>

  The FBI director <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/statement-on-fbi-director-wray-admitting-to-secret-purchase-of-americans-location-data">acknowledged that the FBI had bought location tracking data</a>.
Data about Americans, no less. 
  But this scandal is being understood only at the superficial level.
<p>
The most superficial scandal here is that the FBI bought location data
about Americans in order to track them.
<p>
A deeper scandal is that the company which collected the data was able
to sell the data without asking permission of the users the data is
about.
<p>
The deepest scandal here is that the company was able to collect
location data about Americans.  For real privacy, we need to <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">require
    systems to be designed so as not to track people's life activities</a>.
<p>
No systems should be able to keep track of where people go, what they
do there, or who they communicate with.

 


title: UK ministers disrespecting permanent staff
uri: UK-ministers-disrespecting-permanent-staff
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(UK_ministers_disrespecting_permanent_staff)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(UK_ministers_disrespecting_permanent_staff)

content:
 
<p>

  UK ministers are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/12/ministers-behaviour-to-staff-deeply-corrosive-says-dominic-raabs-former-adviser">disrespecting permanent staff of government agencies</a> to
the point where those become sycophants, giving the advice that ministers
want to hear.
<p>
Perhaps this is why the UK government <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#3_June_2021_(Groupthink)">carries out almost any policy
    incompetently</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Water_crisis,_Europe)
title: Water crisis, Europe
uri: Water-crisis-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Water_crisis,_Europe)
content:
 
<p>
Western Europe, from Spain to Germany, is being hit by a shortage of
rain (and snow) which is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/weather/2023/mar/04/very-precarious-europe-faces-growing-water-crisis-as-winter-drought-worsens">already causing major problems</a>,
  and likely to get worse as weeks go by with little rain.
    
<p>
 


title: Christian protest march in bad taste, AU
uri: Christian-protest-march-in-bad-taste-AU
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Christian_protest_march_in_bad_taste,_AU)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Christian_protest_march_in_bad_taste,_AU)

content:
 
<p>
30 Christians held a protest march on a street where there are clubs
frequented by queer people.  The march was condemned as
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/04/christian-prayer-march-along-newtown-street-was-unauthorised-protest-activity-police-say">"disgraceful"
and "unauthorized protest activity"</a>.
<p>
I oppose those protesters' views, and I reject their religion; but we
must respect their right to protest.  Queers especially must defend
that right &mdash; it was not that long ago that queers met with violent
repression holding rallies, and even when <em>not</em> holding rallies.
Didn't right-wingers call them "disgraceful" when they did not
disguise their orientations and identities?


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Jan_6_footage_abuse_by_Faux_News)
title: Jan 6 footage abuse by Faux News
uri: Jan-6-footage-abuse-by-Faux-News
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Jan_6_footage_abuse_by_Faux_News)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#faux">Faux News</a>
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/politics/jacob-chansley-footage-tucker-carlson/index.html">edited the security camera footage</a>
of insurrectionist Jacob
Chansley on Jan 6 to omit his criminal acts, then claimed that the
absence of those scenes exonerates him.
<p>
What liars say doesn't prove anything, except, occasionally, that they
lie.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Protestor_killed_had_hands_up,_GA)
title: Protester killed had hands up, GA
uri: Protester-killed-had-hands-up-GA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Protestor_killed_had_hands_up,_GA)
content:
 
<p>
The autopsy results show that protester Manuel Paez Terán
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/11/us/cop-city-atlanta-protester-autopsy/index.html">had his
hands up</a>
when the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> shot him and killed him, in Cop City.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Phosphate_rock_mines)
title: Phosphate rock mines
uri: Phosphate-rock-mines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_March_2023_(Phosphate_rock_mines)
content:
 
<p>
Modern agriculture depends on phosphorus fertilizer obtained from
mines, but the mines are heading towards exhaustion, leading towards
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/12/scientists-warn-of-phosphogeddon-fertiliser-shortages-loom">food shortages</a>.
   Meanwhile, the runoff of fertilizer into waters creates toxic algal blooms,
which then convert into planet-roasting methane in the air.
<p>
Before modern agriculture farmers gave plants phosphorus as part of
urine.  Some countries, even some modern ones, still use this method.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Dodd-Frank banking regulation
uri: Urgent-Dodd-Frank-banking-regulation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Urgent:_Dodd-Frank_banking_regulation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Urgent:_Dodd-Frank_banking_regulation)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and representative and call on them
to undo the changes made in the Dodd-Frank bank regulation law to the
strength it had in 2015.
<p>
This law, if not for being weakened by <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>, would have
prevented Silicon Valley Bank from doing the risky things that
caused it to fail.
<p>
The Dodd-Frank law was a weaker replacement for the previous
Glass-Steagall Act, which was abolished in 1999 by Republicans in
Congress.  It is described in
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/regulate-their-greed-or-pay-the-price">this history of US bank regulations</a>.
<p>
I think we should bring back Glass-Steagall with its full force,
rather than an inferior substitute.
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Risk regulations for US banking, weak
uri: Risk-regulations-for-US-banking-weak
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Risk_regulations_for_US_banking,_weak)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Risk_regulations_for_US_banking,_weak)

content:
 
<p>
*Silicon Valley Bank's CEO
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/11/silicon-valley-bank-weaken-risk-regulations-svb">pressed Congress to weaken risk regulations</a>
[designed to keep banks from failing].*
  He said that his bank's operations were risk-free.  We now know
empirically that that was false.
<p>
Basically, our officials (elected and appointed) believe too much of
what business executives and their mouthpieces say.  I speculate that
that is due to lobbying, campaign funds, and the revolving door &mdash; in
one word, corruption.

<p>
 


title: Call for clawing back pay for Silicon Valley Bank executives
uri: Call-for-clawing-back-pay-for-Silicon-Valley-Bank-executives
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Call_for_clawing_back_pay_for_Silicon_Valley_Bank_executives)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Call_for_clawing_back_pay_for_Silicon_Valley_Bank_executives)

content:
 
<p>

  *Warren Calls for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/warren-silicon-valley-bonuses">Clawing Back Pay, Bonuses</a> for Silicon Valley Bank
 Executives.*

 


title: Hospitals and clinic web sites share patient data
uri: Hospitals-and-clinic-web-sites-share-patient-data
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Hospitals_and_clinic_web_sites_share_patient_data)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Hospitals_and_clinic_web_sites_share_patient_data)

content:
 
<p>

Many US hospitals' and clinics' web sites <a href="https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/16/facebook-is-receiving-sensitive-medical-information-from-hospital-websites">give data about
    patients and their medical conditions to Facebook</a>.
<p>
Tracking tokens are especially dangerous when they send medical
information, but they are always an injustice.  They ought to be
prohibited in all web sites, or even better, blocked from functioning.
I use a browser, IceCat, which blocks tracking tokens in a very
general way by blocking third-party resources.
<p>
Some plug-ins for Firefox also block tracking tokens.

 


title: Biden approves fossil fuel development in Alaska
uri: Biden-approves-fossil-fuel-development-in-Alaska
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Biden_approves_fossil_fuel_development_in_Alaska)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Biden_approves_fossil_fuel_development_in_Alaska)

content:
 
<p>

  Biden <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/biden-administration-breaks-climate-promise-and-approves-willow-project">approved the "Willow" fossil fuel development in Alaska</a>,
which will have deadly consequences around the world.
<p>
  He thought that protecting other areas of Alaska <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-approves-willow-project-2659589341">would somehow compensate</a>
for the damage of these additional emissions.
  But environmental activists are not going to forgive damaging our
air and nature in one place on account of choosing not to damage it
somewhere else.

 


title: Meat, dairy and rice production will bust climate target
uri: Meat-dairy-and-rice-production-will-bust-climate-target
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Meat,_dairy_and_rice_production_will_bust_climate_target)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Meat,_dairy_and_rice_production_will_bust_climate_target)

content:
 
<p>

  *Meat, dairy and rice production will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/06/meat-dairy-rice-high-methane-food-production-bust-climate-target-study">bust 1.5C climate target</a>,*
those being the high methane emission foods.

 


title: Written statement by champions of campaign against racism
uri: Written-statement-by-champions-of-campaign-against-racism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Written_statement_by_champions_of_campaign_against_racism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Written_statement_by_champions_of_campaign_against_racism)

content:
 
<p>

Here's a clear statement, written by prominent educators and champions
of the campaign against racism, of how the pressure to censor the
Advanced Placement African-American Studies course is an attack on
freedom of thought and education, and part of a much broader campaign
against education and to cover up important areas of Americans
history.
<p>
It says nothing to suggest that today's young Americans should feel
guilty about crimes that American whites in the past committed against
Americans blacks (though some people do that).  Rather, it says that
we should teach young Americans these aspects of their country's
history, so they can carefully draw moral lessons from those past
events and apply the conclusions today and in the future.
<p>
That goal applies to other issues besides racism.  If democracy and
schools exist 50 years from now, they will teach what has been learned
from investigations based on critical environment theory and critical
computation theory, showing how powerful interests distorted laws and
institutions to poison the Earth and make computing subjugate its
users.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Sec. of Interior, single use plastic
uri: Urgent-Sec-of-Interior-single-use-plastic
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#16_March_2023_(Urgent:_Sec._of_Interior,_single_use_plastic)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#16_March_2023_(Urgent:_Sec._of_Interior,_single_use_plastic)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Secretary Haaland to
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53127&supporter_KEY=229474">reduce single-use plastic in
national parks</a>
by 90% by 2025.


US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/supermarket-super-merger/?t=1001&akid=30484%2E96703%2EId8r3b">block the merger of Albertsons and
Kroger supermarkets</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>


US citizens: call on Biden to
<a href="https://act.freepress.net/sign/biden-pick-new-fcc-nominee?akid=27362.9489429.rNRc9n&rd=1&t=1003">propose a new FCC commissioner</a>
   who follows
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/free-press-action-calls-on-the-white-house-to-heed-five-must-have-qualifications-for-the-next-fcc-nominee">Free Press Action's recommendations</a>.
<p>The White House comments lines are 
<a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.</p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#16_March_2023_(Urgent:_detention_prisons__)
title: Urgent: detention prisons
uri: Urgent-detention-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#16_March_2023_(Urgent:_detention_prisons__)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on the deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> to
<a href="https://action.aclu.org/send-message/shut-down-ice-detention-machine?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=eml&utm_medium=eml&initms=230310_familydetention_messageaction_gradead_sail&utm_source=sail&utm_campaign=familydetention&utm_content=230310_immigration_messageaction_gradead&af=Yb3AJIpkvnwkl6wKwyjELOdf4si7cdbi9GZnigtn2XsinkZMgW/laHLUPy6o6RIvbf5eXPI4VQ9MCb7u6csUcuJHGCwdsf/Ekhq8Oy/iV2Y/VM5bOih/HmQmLg9UcJwBelZFsSGw38zZwE5iPDbe8SiTlCng7MmoxLHWel8aL4o%3D&gs=2S0HNICAbmtrqPM4MuEhLoyoTst%2BFzjD3IuvTxPYPzHzPb4n%2Bu10adDHhQUMKY4I&ms_aff=nat&ms_chan=eml&ms=230310_familydetention_messageaction_gradead_sail">close abusive
deportation prisons and not open new ones</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Sec. of Interior, single use plastic
uri: 2023-03-16-Urgent-Sec-of-Interior-single-use-plastic
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Urgent:_Sec._of_Interior,_single_use_plastic)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Urgent:_Sec._of_Interior,_single_use_plastic)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Secretary Haaland to
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53127&supporter_KEY=229474">reduce single-use plastic in
national parks</a>
by 90% by 2025.


US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/supermarket-super-merger/?t=1001&akid=30484%2E96703%2EId8r3b">block the merger of Albertsons and
Kroger supermarkets</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>


US citizens: call on Biden to
<a href="https://act.freepress.net/sign/biden-pick-new-fcc-nominee?akid=27362.9489429.rNRc9n&rd=1&t=1003">propose a new FCC commissioner</a>
   who follows
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/free-press-action-calls-on-the-white-house-to-heed-five-must-have-qualifications-for-the-next-fcc-nominee">Free Press Action's recommendations</a>.
<p>The White House comments lines are 
<a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.</p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Full,_big_RR,_reparations)
title: Full, big RR, reparations
uri: Full-big-RR-reparations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Full,_big_RR,_reparations)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/15/ohio-train-derailment-lawsuit-norfolk-southern">Ohio sues Norfolk Southern</a>
over toxic train derailment.*
<p>
That selfish and greedy organization is happy to profit by putting the
public at risk.  But if it loses this lawsuit, that could compel it to
adopt better safety standards.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(North_slope_oil)
title: North slope oil
uri: North-slope-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(North_slope_oil)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/conservation-groups-sue-to-stop-the-willow-oil-project-in-alaskas-western-arctic">Conservation groups sue</a>
to stop the Willow Oil Project in Alaska’s
 Western Arctic.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Global_village,_demographics)
title: Global village, demographics
uri: Global-village-demographics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Global_village,_demographics)
content:
 
<p>
Presenting demographic statistics clearly by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/13/world-children-100-people-scary-statistics">imagining a world of 100
people</a>.

<p>
 


title: Sunak's new, economic, climate policy
uri: Sunak-s-new-economic-climate-policy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Sunak's_new,_economic,_climate_policy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Sunak's_new,_economic,_climate_policy)

content:
 
<p>
In the name of "energy security", UK prime minister Sunak wants to
focus on slow, inefficient and iffy
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/13/sunak-focus-carbon-capture-mini-nuclear-reactors-energy-policy">approaches</a>.
<p>
It looks like the real goal is to continue the extraction and
combustion of carbon as long as possible.  Is this an example of
"carbon capture"?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Dishonest_pricing,_UK)
title: Dishonest pricing, UK
uri: Dishonest-pricing-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Dishonest_pricing,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/13/britain-cost-of-living-crisis-bosses-profits-shareholders-workers">Most of the major companies</a>
in the UK have imposed big price increases
simply because the system has nothing to hold them in check.
<p>
Raising interest rates, supposedly to reduce inflation, does nothing
to stop them.  But it is very useful for the rich, and inflation makes
a great excuse.

<p>
 


title: The class warfare of Bank-regulating
uri: The-class-warfare-of-Bank-regulating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(The_class_warfare_of_Bank-regulating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(The_class_warfare_of_Bank-regulating)

content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich explains the history of US bank regulations since the
great depression: a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/13/svb-collapse-2008-financial-crisis">conflict between the public and the rich</a>,
with politicians choosing which side to take.
  He concludes with calling for a return to the New Deal regulations
including the Glass-Steagall Act, to "make banking boring again."
<p>
Bernie Sanders has called for
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/taxpayer-bailout-silicon-valley-bank">this too</a>.
<p>
In my view, the 2000s bail-out of the rich might have been ok if
combined with a bailout of homeowners plus increasing taxes on the
wealthy and on businesses so as to pay for it.









 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#16_March_2023_(Urgent:_An_FCC_Commissioner)
title: Urgent: An FCC Commissioner
uri: Urgent-An-FCC-Commissioner
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#16_March_2023_(Urgent:_An_FCC_Commissioner)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to
<a href="https://act.freepress.net/sign/biden-pick-new-fcc-nominee?akid=27362.9489429.rNRc9n&rd=1&t=1003">propose a new FCC commissioner</a>
   who follows
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/free-press-action-calls-on-the-white-house-to-heed-five-must-have-qualifications-for-the-next-fcc-nominee">Free Press Action's recommendations</a>.
<p>The White House comments lines are 
<a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.</p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Urgent:_Supermarket_merger)
title: Urgent: Supermarket merger
uri: Urgent-Supermarket-merger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Urgent:_Supermarket_merger)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/supermarket-super-merger/?t=1001&akid=30484%2E96703%2EId8r3b">block the merger of Albertsons and
Kroger supermarkets</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Bank_regulating_as_class_warfare)
title: Bank regulating as class warfare
uri: Bank-regulating-as-class-warfare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_March_2023_(Bank_regulating_as_class_warfare)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich explains the history of US bank regulations since the
great depression: a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/13/svb-collapse-2008-financial-crisis">conflict between the public and the rich</a>,
with politicians choosing which side to take.
  He concludes with calling for a return to the New Deal regulations
including the Glass-Steagall Act, to "make banking boring again."
<p>
Bernie Sanders has called for
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/taxpayer-bailout-silicon-valley-bank">this too</a>.
<p>
In my view, the 2000s bail-out of the rich might have been ok if
combined with a bailout of homeowners plus increasing taxes on the
wealthy and on businesses so as to pay for it.

 


title: Destructive anti-terrorist forces used against protesters, GA
uri: Destructive-anti-terrorist-forces-used-against-protesters-GA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Destructive_anti-terrorist_forces_used_against_protesters,_GA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Destructive_anti-terrorist_forces_used_against_protesters,_GA)

content:
 
<p>
Thugs committed violence against
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/15/cop-city-police-intimidation-questionable-tactics">the property of protesters at Cop City</a>
while trying to find evidence for "terrorist plots" in protest supplies.
<p>
The actions of the thugs are calculated to spread terror among
civilians who are only exercising their legal rights.  That's
terrorism, pure and simple.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Bank_depositors_rescued,_CA)
title: Bank depositors rescued, CA
uri: Bank-depositors-rescued-CA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Bank_depositors_rescued,_CA)
content:
 
<p>
How Biden plans to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/13/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-biden-bailout-question">bail out the depositors</a>
of failed banks, including
large deposits not officially covered by FDIC, using funds accumulated
by FDIC.
<p>
If this sort of thing becomes frequent, it may call for increasing the
fee rates of FDIC.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Bank_deregulation,_Sinema)
title: Bank deregulation, Sinema
uri: Bank-deregulation-Sinema
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Bank_deregulation,_Sinema)
content:
 
<p>
Senator Sinema voted for the Republicans'
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/ruben-gallego-sinema">bank deregulation law</a>
in 2018,
after accepting campaign funds from Silicon Valley Bank's lobbyists.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Punishment_for_abortion,_SC)
title: Punishment for abortion, SC
uri: Punishment-for-abortion-SC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Punishment_for_abortion,_SC)
content:
 
<p>
21 Republican legislators in South Carolina supported a bill to
impose
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/south-carolina-abortion-death-penalty">the death penalty</a>
for "homicide" against a fertilized egg.
  That much strong support shows that that religious fanaticism has
become mainstream in the Republican Party.  Women, Republicans want to
kill you.
<p>
This bill would punish not only abortion, but also some methods of
birth control that prevent a zygote from implanting and generating a placenta.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Clean_drinking_water)
title: Clean drinking water
uri: Clean-drinking-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Clean_drinking_water)
content:
 
<p>
The EPA has taken a small step to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/today-s-epa-action-concerning-pfas-in-drinking-water">limit PFAS in drinking water</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(BBC_News,_right-wing_bias)
title: BBC News, right-wing bias
uri: BBC-News-right-wing-bias
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(BBC_News,_right-wing_bias)
content:
 
<p>
The BBC claims to be politically independent, but in practice its rules
for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/14/gary-lineker-bbc-rightwing-national-debate">presenters, writers and commentators</a>
are applied with enormous
right-wing bias.
This has been the case for decades at least.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Credit_card_junk_fees)
title: Credit card junk fees
uri: Credit-card-junk-fees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Credit_card_junk_fees)
content:
 
<p>
*Republican lawmakers funded by the credit card industry are fighting
 to protect the
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/r/f489d9e8?m=a1296444-4385-46f7-b56f-c5acabd34844">excessive fees</a>
companies charge consumers.*
<p>
The junk fees are not among the biggest ways that businesses exploit
bad laws to exploit the non-rich, but they are an example of the
electoral corruption that upholds plutocracy in the US.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(A_post-truth_US_and_the_Iraq_war)
title: A post-truth US and the Iraq war
uri: A-post-truth-US-and-the-Iraq-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(A_post-truth_US_and_the_Iraq_war)
content:
 
<p>
*The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/14/iraq-war-9-11-george-bush-post-truth">Iraq War started the post-truth era</a>.
And America is to blame.*
<p>
I don't think that is entirely true, because the right-wingers were
using lies before that.  The campaign to capture US policy decisions
for the rich, and pretend that non-rich receiving government help were
the exploiters, started in the 1970s; it was based on lies from top to
bottom.
<p>
It has been argued that al-Libi was not merely giving his torturers
what they demanded, but intentionally encouraging a <a href="/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#30_January_2017_(Why_torture_does_not_work)">war between the US
    and Saddam Hussein</a>, both being enemies of al-Qa'ida.

<p>
 


title: Escobar's African hippos, feral in Columbia
uri: Escobar-s-African-hippos-feral-in-Columbia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Escobar's_African_hippos,_feral_in_Columbia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Escobar's_African_hippos,_feral_in_Columbia)

content:
 
<p>
Feral hippopotamuses in Colombia are reproducing and causing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/14/pablo-escobar-hippos-colombia-export-aoe">problems
for humans and for wildlife</a>.
<p>
Since these intrusive animals are damaging native wildlife, the right
thing to do is to eliminate them from the wild in Colombia.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Oil_drilling_in_the_Arctic)
title: Oil drilling in the Arctic
uri: Oil-drilling-in-the-Arctic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(Oil_drilling_in_the_Arctic)
content:
 
<p>
Biden has given reasons for approving the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/14/biden-president-approved-alaska-willow-project">Willow oil drilling project</a>,
but they are fallacious.
<p>
Allegedly the attempt to reject the project entirely is likely to be
overturned by courts.  What if that is true?  What would be the right
thing to do?
<p>
We are dealing with a threat to kill most human beings and wipe out
most living species -- in effect, the biggest war in all history.
So let's look at it like a battle against the planet-roasters.
<p>
When your army holds a position that it cannot continue to hold
indefinitely, should you pull those troops back promptly, or hold the
position as long as possible?  It depends on what you can gain by
holding it and what you might lose.
<p>
In this case, there is nothing to lose by fighting in court except the
cost of paying some lawyers.  Therefore, Biden's duty is to hold that
position for as long as possible.  Delaying the drilling is good in
itself, and the fight to delay it will inspire climate defenders and
help win the next election.
<p>
The delay also creates an opportunity for the situation to change.  In
2025 it may be possible to pass a law &mdash; <a href="/archives/2018-sep-dec.html#9_October_2018_(Carbon_tax)">perhaps a carbon tax</a>
&mdash; that would make Chevron abandon the project.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(desantis_utility_power_shutoff)
title: DeSantis Lets Electric Companies Hide Their Dirty Work
uri: DeSantis-Lets-Electric-Companies-Hide-Their-Dirty-Work
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(desantis_utility_power_shutoff)
content:
 
<p>
*After industry cash flooded their war chests, Florida Republicans stopped requiring utilities from disclosing who they are punishing 

<a href="https://www.levernews.com/r/1483f7cb?m=a1296444-4385-46f7-b56f-c5acabd34844">with power shutoffs.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(mexico_human_rights_abuses)
title: Mexico to investigate alleged human rights abuses by military after spying claims
uri: Mexico-to-investigate-alleged-human-rights-abuses-by-military-after-sp
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(mexico_human_rights_abuses)
content:
 
<p>
*Mexico to investigate alleged human rights abuses by military 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/15/mexico-to-investigate-alleged-human-rights-abuses-by-military-after-spying-claims
">after
spying claims.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_((satire)_fetus_panics)
title: (satire) *Fetus Panics After Ballooning Up To 500 Times Her Original Weight.*
uri: (satire)-Fetus-Panics-After-Ballooning-Up-To-500-Times-Her-Original
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_((satire)_fetus_panics)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Fetus Panics After Ballooning Up To 500 Times 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/fetus-panics-after-ballooning-up-to-500-times-her-origi-1850186792">Her Original
   Weight.*</a>
   
   <p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(bair_fed_rates)
title: The Fed needs to stop raising rates now, former FDIC chair says after Silicon Valley Bank failure
uri: The-Fed-needs-to-stop-raising-rates-now-former-FDIC-chair-says-after
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(bair_fed_rates)
content:
 
<p>
*The [Federal Reserve] needs to stop raising rates now, former FDIC
chair says after 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/investing/sheila-bair-svb-fed-rates/index.html">Silicon Valley Bank failure.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(tax_fairness_arguments)
title: The Case For a 28% Corporate Tax Rate
uri: The-Case-For-a-28-Corporate-Tax-Rate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(tax_fairness_arguments)
content:
 
<p>
Americans for Tax Fairness: arguments for raising the 
<a href="https://americansfortaxfairness.org/issue/case-28-corporate-tax-rate/">tax rate on
corporations to 28%.</a>
<p>
I think we also need to eliminate the ways that corporations arrange
to claim that income was nominally received in some other country with
a lower tax rate.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(sheriff_sentenced_18_months)
uri: Former-Georgia-sheriff-who-ordered-detainees-to-be-strapped-to-restrai
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(sheriff_sentenced_18_months)
title:
 Former Georgia sheriff who ordered detainees to be strapped to restraint chair sentenced to 18 months prison 

content:
 
<p>
A Georgia sheriff has been sentenced to prison for torturing prisoners.
He put them into bondage chairs and left them there 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/us/georgia-sheriff-victor-hill-sentence/index.html">long enough to cause
serious bodily harm.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_((satire)_zuckerberg_facebook)
title: (satire) Mark Zuckerberg Worried Facebook Listening To Him
uri: (satire)-Mark-Zuckerberg-Worried-Facebook-Listening-To-Him
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_((satire)_zuckerberg_facebook)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Mark Zuckerberg Worried Facebook Listening To Him After
Being Pushed Shirt That Says, 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/mark-zuckerberg-worried-facebook-listening-to-him-after-1850224828">"I Just Laid Off 10,000 Employees."*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_((satire)_desantis_bans_births)
title: Ron DeSantis Bans Births In Florida Due To Exposure Of Impressionable Infants To Vagina
uri: Ron-DeSantis-Bans-Births-In-Florida-Due-To-Exposure-Of-Impressionable
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_((satire)_desantis_bans_births)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Ron DeSantis Bans Births In Florida Due To Exposure Of 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/ron-desantis-bans-births-in-florida-due-to-exposure-of-1850224634">Impressionable Infants To Vagina.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(iowa_law_teachers)
title: Iowa law forbids teachers from telling students "slavery was wrong"
uri: Iowa-law-forbids-teachers-from-telling-students-slavery-was-wrong
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#17_March_2023_(iowa_law_teachers)
content:
 
<p>
A Republican legislator in Iowa claims that the law he helped to pass
prohibits teachers from 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2023/03/14/iowa-law-forbids-teachers-from-telling-students-slavery-was-wrong.html">telling students that "slavery is wrong."</a>
<p>
The actual text of the law does not go that far.  It prohibits saying
that the US, or Iowa, is "fundamentally or systemically racist or
sexist."  There is no serious doubt that systemic racism and sexism
exist in Iowa, and in the US generally, so that law tries to censor an
important truth.  But it does not seem to prohibit saying "slavery is
wrong."  Nonetheless, officials fear it implies that.
<p>
People fear that these laws will be stretched and twisted to attack
them because Republicans say they want to try, and Republican judges
are are ready to be dishonest in interpreting laws.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Stop privatization of US Postal Service
uri: Urgent-Stop-privatization-of-US-Postal-Service
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_March_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_privatization_of_US_Postal_Service_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_March_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_privatization_of_US_Postal_Service_)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/stop-dejoy-swap/?t=1002&akid=30493%2E96703%2ErQ4pk_">call on the USPS Board of Governors</a>
to stop DeJoy's USPS privatization plan.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_March_2023_(Urgent:_Clean_Water_Act)
title: Urgent: Clean Water Act
uri: 2023-03-18-Urgent-Clean-Water-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_March_2023_(Urgent:_Clean_Water_Act)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on your senators to
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53765&supporter_KEY=229474&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:117564&utm_campaign=AME4-FWAT:CWA-0323&utm_content=EM9:00C:0HH-LLP">defend the Clean Water Act</a>.
<p>
To sign without running nonfree JavaScript
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">code</a>
from the web site,
use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_March_2023_(Ire_of_NY_Jews,_Chuck_Schumer)
title: Ire of NY Jews, Chuck Schumer
uri: Ire-of-NY-Jews-Chuck-Schumer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_March_2023_(Ire_of_NY_Jews,_Chuck_Schumer)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/rally-end-military-support-israel">Jews in New York City held a protest</a>
calling on Senator Schumer to stop cozying up to Israel's fascist-leaning government.

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<p>
 


title: Mankinds greatest potential: 1111 cheap-fix methane leaks
uri: Mankinds-greatest-potential-1111-cheap-fix-methane-leaks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_March_2023_(Mankinds_greatest_potential:_1111_cheap-fix_methane_leaks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_March_2023_(Mankinds_greatest_potential:_1111_cheap-fix_methane_leaks)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/06/revealed-1000-super-emitting-methane-leaks-risk-triggering-climate-tipping-points">Vast releases</a>
of [methane] gas, along with future "methane bombs,"
represent huge threat &mdash; but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce
global heating.*
-->

<p>
 


title: Republican political hostile takeover of HISD, disprivileged racial groups, student body, TX
uri: Republican-political-hostile-takeover-of-HISD-disprivileged-racial-gr
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_March_2023_(Republican_political_hostile_takeover)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_March_2023_(Republican_political_hostile_takeover)

content:
 
<p>
Texas officials are using a pretext to take over control of the
Houston Independent School District. 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/houston-school-district-takeover">The pretext</a>
consists of one problem school that the city was improving.
  State officials have not presented any plan to do better.
We can anticipate that they will make some aspects of the schools
worse, and I conjecture that that is their real goal.  We must expect
deceit from Republicans.
<p>
The imposed state board will have the power to impose censorship, and
I expect it will use that to prompt racism and sexism and interfere
with sex education, as
<a href="/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_March_2023_((Satire)_School_meals)">DeMentis is doing</a> in
<a href="/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_February_2023_((Satire)_Eighteen_banned_books)">Florida</a>.
<p>
I expect Republicans will also ramp up the
<a href="/archives/2020-may-aug.html#15_June_2020_(Arrests_instead_of_counseling)">school-to-prison pipeline</a>.
With so many black students in that district, this will be a great
<a href="/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#29_September_2020_(Child_Protection)">opportunity to put many of them in state prisons</a>
and thus disenfranchise them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_March_2023_(Win_for_labor,_NHS,_UK)
title: Win for labor, NHS, UK
uri: Win-for-labor-NHS-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_March_2023_(Win_for_labor,_NHS,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
The UK government offered many
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/16/pay-rise-nhs-staff-governments-delay-irreparable-damage">NHS workers</a>
in England a bigger raise,

which means <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#26_July_2019_(National_Health_Service)">more</a>
or <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(NHS_doctor_strike)">less</a>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(nhs_nurse_pay)">victory</a>
for their <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(NHS_nurse_that_joins_strike)">strikes</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_March_2023_(Financial_speculation_via_banks)
title: Financial speculation via banks
uri: Financial-speculation-via-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_March_2023_(Financial_speculation_via_banks)
content:
 
<p>
The practice of fully protecting all depositors from bank failures
while letting the bank speculate with the deposits is
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/silicon-valley-bank-bailout">an invitation
for banks to take foolish risks</a>.
<p>
Readopting Glass-Steagal would prevent some of the mismanagement that
can make large banks fail.  However, the author calls for
nationalizing the largest banks.


<p>
 


title: Written statement by champions of campaign against racism
uri: 2023-03-20-Written-statement-by-champions-of-campaign-against-racism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Written_statement_by_champions_of_campaign_against_racism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Written_statement_by_champions_of_campaign_against_racism)

content:
 
<p>
  Here's a <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/open-letter-on-fighting-anti-woke-censorship-of-intersectionality-and-black-feminism">clear statement</a>, written by prominent educators and champions
of the campaign against racism, of how the pressure to censor the
Advanced Placement African-American Studies course is an attack on
freedom of thought and education, and part of a much broader campaign
against education and to cover up important areas of Americans
history.
<p>
It says nothing to suggest that today's young Americans should feel
guilty about crimes that American whites in the past committed against
Americans blacks (though some people do that).  Rather, it says that
we should teach young Americans these aspects of their country's
history, so they can carefully draw moral lessons from those past
events and apply the conclusions today and in the future.
<p>
That goal applies to other issues besides racism.  If democracy and
schools exist 50 years from now, they will teach what has been learned
from investigations based on critical environment theory and critical
computation theory, showing how powerful interests distorted laws and
institutions to poison the Earth and make computing subjugate its
users.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(covid_origins_raccoon_dogs)
uri: Scientists-parse-another-clue-to-possible-origins-of-Covid-19-as-WHO-s
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(covid_origins_raccoon_dogs)
title:
 Scientists parse another clue to possible origins of Covid-19 as WHO says all possibilities ‘remain on the table’ 

content:
 
<p>
Newly studied evidence suggests that raccoon dogs (a species related
to foxes) in Wuhan's live animal market were 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/17/health/covid-origins-raccoon-dogs/index.html">infected by SARS-CoV-2.</a>

<p>
 


title: US to pay $6.5 million in lost wages owed to Mexican migrant workers
uri: US-to-pay-6-5-million-in-lost-wages-owed-to-Mexican-migrant-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(US_lost_wages_owed_to_migrant_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(US_lost_wages_owed_to_migrant_workers)

content:
 
<p>
The US and Mexico are cooperating to send Mexicans who worked legally
in the US the wages that 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/15/americas/us-mexico-lost-wages-intl-latam/index.html">employers stole from them.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_((satire)_locksmith_called)
title: (satire) Locksmith Called After Man Loses Incantation Used To Open Ancient Stone Chamber
uri: (satire)-Locksmith-Called-After-Man-Loses-Incantation-Used-To-Open-Anc
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_((satire)_locksmith_called)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Locksmith Called After Man Loses Incantation
   Used To Open 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/locksmith-called-after-man-loses-incantation-used-to-op-1850203445">Ancient Stone Chamber.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(po_ferries)
title: One year on, has P&O Ferries got away with illegally sacking all its crew?
uri: One-year-on-has-P-O-Ferries-got-away-with-illegally-sacking-all-its-c
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(po_ferries)
content:
 
<p>
P&O Ferries aroused condemnation by firing its well-paid workers
and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/17/one-year-on-has-po-ferries-got-away-with-illegally-sacking-all-its-crew">hiring low-paid foreigners.</a>
<p>
But nothing has been done to reverse that or punish the company or prevent
repetition.
<p>
This does not surprise me.  Tories would consider this desirable
as it enriches the wealthy.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(sunak_focus_capture)
title: Sunak to focus on carbon capture and mini-nuclear reactors in energy policy
uri: Sunak-to-focus-on-carbon-capture-and-mini-nuclear-reactors-in-energy-p
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(sunak_focus_capture)
content:
 
<p>
Sunak proposes a planet-roasting distraction policy to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/13/sunak-focus-carbon-capture-mini-nuclear-reactors-energy-policy">prolong fossil
fuel use.</a>
<p>
It promotes carbon capture
<p>
and mini-nuclear reactors,
<p>
 neither of which even exists as a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/13/sunak-focus-carbon-capture-mini-nuclear-reactors-energy-policy">working solution now.</a>
<p>
For planet roasters, delaying renewable energy is as good as rejecting
it entirely.

 


title: Urgent: Make Warren Buffett answer for pushing to deregulate railroads
uri: Urgent-Make-Warren-Buffett-answer-for-pushing-to-deregulate-railroads
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Urgent:_Make_Warren_Buffett_answer_for_pushing_to_deregulate_railroads)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Urgent:_Make_Warren_Buffett_answer_for_pushing_to_deregulate_railroads)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to make Warren Buffett <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-make-warren-buffett-answer-for-his-push-to-deregulate-the-railroad-industry">answer for his
    push to deregulate the railroads</a>.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

 


title: Urgent: Call Biden not to imprison immigrant families
uri: Urgent-Call-Biden-not-to-imprison-immigrant-families
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Urgent:_Call_Biden_not_to_imprison_immigrant_families)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Urgent:_Call_Biden_not_to_imprison_immigrant_families)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/no-kids-in-cages">not to imprison unauthorized immigrant
    families</a>.

<p>The White House comments lines are 
<a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.</p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

 


title: (satire) Diversity ultimately doomed Third Reich
uri: (satire)-Diversity-ultimately-doomed-Third-Reich
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_((satire)_Diversity_ultimately_doomed_Third_Reich)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_((satire)_Diversity_ultimately_doomed_Third_Reich)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/conservative-historian-claims-diversity-ultimately-doom-1850233848">*Conservative Historian Claims Diversity Ultimately Doomed
    Third Reich.*</a>

 


title: Thugs charged for smothering prisoner to death
uri: Thugs-charged-for-smothering-prisoner-to-death
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Thugs_charged_for_smothering_prisoner_to_death)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Thugs_charged_for_smothering_prisoner_to_death)

content:
 
<p>

  Virginia <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> have been <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/15/us/virginia-sheriffs-deputies-arrested-custody-death/index.html">charged with second-degree murder</a> for
smothering a prisoner to death.
  The prisoner's hands and feet were chained, so he was no threat to
them at the time.

 


title: Court rejected DeMentis's education censorship law
uri: Court-rejected-DeMentis-s-education-censorship-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Court_rejected_DeMentis's_education_censorship_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Court_rejected_DeMentis's_education_censorship_law)

content:
 
<p>

  A federal appeals court <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/florida-stop-woke-act-blocked">rejected DeMentis's education censorship law</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Demand_on_global_fresh_water_supply)
title: Demand on global fresh water supply
uri: Demand-on-global-fresh-water-supply
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Demand_on_global_fresh_water_supply)
content:
 
<p>

  *Global fresh water demand will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/17/global-fresh-water-demand-outstrip-supply-by-2030">outstrip supply by 40% by 2030</a>, say experts.*
<p>
The increase will not be due to the need for humans' domestic use.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Biden_budget_worth_celebrating)
title: Biden budget worth celebrating
uri: Biden-budget-worth-celebrating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Biden_budget_worth_celebrating)
content:
 
<p>

  *Aside From the Military Bloat, Biden Budget Is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/biden-budget-social-investments">Worth Celebrating</a>.*
<p>
I am less enthusiastic because I am sure FDR would have done a lot
more.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Russian_soldier_jailed)
title: Russian soldier jailed
uri: Russian-soldier-jailed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Russian_soldier_jailed)
content:
 
<p>

*Russian soldier who confessed to killing Ukrainian civilian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/16/russian-soldier-confessed-killing-ukrainian-civilian-jailed-fake-news-daniil-frolkin">[has
    been] jailed [for supposedly posting] "fake news."</a>*
<p>
Putin deploys bogus criminal charges to punish any disobedience.

 


title: Information about death of Manuel Paez Terán
uri: Information-about-death-of-Manuel-Paez-Terán
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Information_about_death_of_Manuel_Paez_Terán)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Information_about_death_of_Manuel_Paez_Terán)

content:
 
<p>

Many city, county and state agencies have refused to give Manuel Paez
Terán's family <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/16/manuel-paez-teran-delayed-autopsy">answers or evidence</a> about how <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> killed him.
<p>
There is no reason to doubt that this is what it looks like: a murder
followed by playing dumb.  The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs'</a> denials count for nothing since
they are biased and untrustworthy witnesses.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Lies_that_misled_America_into_Iraq)
title: Lies that misled America into Iraq
uri: Lies-that-misled-America-into-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Lies_that_misled_America_into_Iraq)
content:
 
<p>

The campaign of repeated lies by which <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dubya">Dubya</a> won support for attacking
Iraq <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/03/15/the-folly-of-the-iraq-war-and-how-something-similar-could-happen-again/">misled Americans about fundamental background facts</a>, such as the
fact that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the September 2001
terrorist attacks and treated al Qa'ida as an enemy.
<p>
A similar preparatory campaign against Iran seems to have been running
for years.

 


title: Plutocrats distorting public education
uri: Plutocrats-distorting-public-education
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Plutocrats_distorting_public_education)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Plutocrats_distorting_public_education)

content:
 
<p>

Since young Americans reject the Republican politics, the plutocrats
are trying to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-right-wing-gop-plan-to-kill-education">wipe or our distort public education</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Loophole_undermined_fishing_quotas)
title: Loophole undermined fishing quotas
uri: Loophole-undermined-fishing-quotas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Loophole_undermined_fishing_quotas)
content:
 
<p>

  A loophole in log requirements has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/16/loophole-quotas-overfishing-endangered-species-eu-papers">undermined European fishing quotas</a>.
Governments corrupted by fishing interests are now pushing to make
the loophole bigger.

 


title: Possible Federal Reserve Board nominee
uri: Possible-Federal-Reserve-Board-nominee
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Possible_Federal_Reserve_Board_nominee)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Possible_Federal_Reserve_Board_nominee)

content:
 
<p>

Biden is considering nominating for the Federal Reserve Board someone
who previously <a href="https://prospect.org/economy/2023-03-06-janice-eberly-fed-nominee-mortgage-crisis/">supported the banks against innocent US homeowners</a>
while an official in a related agency, the US Treasury.

 


title: (satire) Invest in businesses governments will bail out
uri: (satire)-Invest-in-businesses-governments-will-bail-out
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_((satire)_Invest_in_businesses_governments_will_bail_out)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_((satire)_Invest_in_businesses_governments_will_bail_out)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/financial-experts-recommend-investing-in-businesses-gov-1850232999">*Financial Experts Recommend Investing In
    Businesses Government Will Bail Out Anytime They Fuck Up.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Executives_of_failed_banks)
title: Executives of failed banks
uri: Executives-of-failed-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Executives_of_failed_banks)
content:
 
<p>

  *Biden Says Top Executives of Failed Banks <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-svb-executives">Should Face Harsher Penalties</a>.*

 


title: The bullshitter's research on the election
uri: The-bullshitter-s-research-on-the-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(The_bullshitter's_research_on_the_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(The_bullshitter's_research_on_the_election)

content:
 
<p>

*<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter</a>’s own research showed that voter fraud <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/17/trump-research-voter-fraud-claims-debunked">did not cost
    him election</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Lessons_of_Iraq_invasion)
title: Lessons of Iraq invasion
uri: Lessons-of-Iraq-invasion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(Lessons_of_Iraq_invasion)
content:
 
<p>

  *The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/17/iraq-war-spies-labour-invasion-conflict">lessons of the Iraq invasion [for the UK]</a>?  Beware spies and
allies who would drag you to war.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(silicon_valley_bank_bailout)
title: Silicon Valley Bank said it was too small to need regulation. Now it’s ‘too big to fail’
uri: 2023-03-21-
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(silicon_valley_bank_bailout)
content:
 
<p>
*Silicon Valley Bank said it was too small to need regulation. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/17/silicon-valley-bank-bailout-dodd-frank-regulation-opinion">Now it's "too
big to fail."*</a>
<p>
Surely every <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bankster">bankster</a> wants per bank to be both at once.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(east_palestine_dioxin_levels)
title: East Palestine Soil Contains Dioxin Levels Hundreds of Times Over Cancer Risk Threshold
uri: East-Palestine-Soil-Contains-Dioxin-Levels-Hundreds-of-Times-Over-Canc
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(east_palestine_dioxin_levels)
content:
 
<p>
Soil near the Ohio train wreck contains extremely 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/east-palestine-dioxin-levels">high levels of
dioxin.</a>

<p>
 


title: This Is Not a Repeat of the 2008 Financial Crisis, But It Is the Same Capitalist Rot
uri: This-Is-Not-a-Repeat-of-the-2008-Financial-Crisis-But-It-Is-the-Same
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(financial_crisis_silicon_valley_bank)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(financial_crisis_silicon_valley_bank)

content:
 
<p>
Yanis Varoufakis: today's banking crisis is the latest repercussion
the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/financial-crisis-silicon-valley-bank-capitalism">2008 financial crisis.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(water_report_un)
title: Report Calls for Water to Be Treated as 'Global Common Good' as Supply Crisis Looms
uri: Report-Calls-for-Water-to-Be-Treated-as-Global-Common-Good-as-Supply
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(water_report_un)
content:
 
<p>
* Global Commission on the Economics of Water released a landmark
  report Friday to warn the international community that the world is
  "heading for massive collective failure" in the management of the
  planet's water supply and demand that 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/water-report-un-conference">governments treat water as a
  "global common good."*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(icc_putin_war_crimes)
title: Putin’s alleged war crimes: who are the Ukrainian children being taken by Russia?
uri: Putin-s-alleged-war-crimes-who-are-the-Ukrainian-children-being-tak
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(icc_putin_war_crimes)
content:
 
<p>
The International Criminal Court has indicted Putin and some other
Russians for forcibly taking hundreds, probably thousands, of
Ukrainian children to Russia and concealing who they are from 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/17/vladimir-putin-war-crimes-icc-arrest-warrant-ukraine-children">their
Ukrainian relatives.</a>
<p>
The article describes what he has done.
<p>
I have no doubt that Putin merits punishment for this.  However,
putting him on trial for it risks prolonging the war.  If Ukraine is
militarily successful, Putin might be willing to retreat from Ukraine
in exchange for being allowed to continue in power in Russia.  Insisting
on trying him might convince him to continue holding parts of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/04/putin-war-crimes-accusation-ukraine-icc">Ukraine
until the Putin forces are pushed out.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(svb_debacle_silicon_valley)
title: The SVB debacle has exposed the hypocrisy of Silicon Valley
uri: The-SVB-debacle-has-exposed-the-hypocrisy-of-Silicon-Valley
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(svb_debacle_silicon_valley)
content:
 
<p>
*   US tech innovators have a culture of regarding government as an
   innovation-blocking nuisance. But when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed,
   investors 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/18/the-svb-debacle-has-exposed-the-hypocrisy-of-silicon-valley-bank">screamed for state protection.*</a>
Socialism for the rich, laissez faire/laissez mourir for the rest.

<p>
 


title: ‘A wake-up call’: total weight of wild mammals less than 10% of humanity’s
uri: A-wake-up-call-total-weight-of-wild-mammals-less-than-10-of-hu
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(total_weight_earth_wild_land_mammals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(total_weight_earth_wild_land_mammals)

content:
 
<p>
* The total weight of Earth’s wild land mammals &mdash; from elephants to
   bisons and from deer to tigers &mdash; is now less than 10% of the
   combined tonnage of men, women and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/18/a-wake-up-call-total-weight-of-wild-mammals-less-than-10-of-humanitys">children living on the planet.*</a>

<p>
 


title: 'Beautiful': Minnesota Becomes 4th State to Provide Free School Meals to All Kids
uri: Beautiful-Minnesota-Becomes-4th-State-to-Provide-Free-School-Meals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(minnesota_universal_free_school_meals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(minnesota_universal_free_school_meals)

content:
 
<p>
*Minnesota Becomes 4th State to Provide [gratis] 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/minnesota-universal-free-school-meals">School Meals to All
 Kids.*</a>
<p>
To reduce the confusion of the two meanings of "free", I carefully
avoid using it to mean "gratis".

<p>
 


uri: English-professor-in-Florida-says-university-is-reviewing-his-employme
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(palm_beach_uni_professor_racial_injustice)

title:
 English professor in Florida says university is reviewing his employment following complaint over racial justice unit 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(palm_beach_uni_professor_racial_injustice)

content:
 
<p>
A Christian university in Florida fired a professor because a student
denounced what he 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/18/us/palm-beach-atlantic-university-professor-racial-justice-unit/index.html">taught about racial justice.</a>
<p>
The student called it "indoctrination", but other students said it wasn't.
For right-wingers, exaggeration even to the point of dishonesty is
normal and legitimate.
<p>
That article was written before the actual firing.  I chose to link to it
because it explains more of the situation.

<p>
 


title: Why Putin kidnapped Ukrainian children — despite facing arrest for this war crime
uri: Why-Putin-kidnapped-Ukrainian-children-despite-facing-arrest-for-t
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(why_putin_kidnapped_ukrainian_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#20_March_2023_(why_putin_kidnapped_ukrainian_children)

content:
 
<p>
Greg Palast conjectures that Putin grabbed Ukrainian children and gave them
to Russians to raise in order to boost the 
<a href="https://www.gregpalast.com/why-putin-kidnapped-ukrainian-children-despite-facing-arrest-for-this-war-crime/">fraction of Russians
that wull be white orthodox Christians.</a>

<p>
 


title: Contrails contribute to global heating
uri: Contrails-contribute-to-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Contrails_contribute_to_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Contrails_contribute_to_global_heating)

content:
 
<p>

Contrails contribute to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>, but airlines <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/18/aviation-chiefs-rejected-measures-to-curb-climate-impact-of-jet-vapours">lobby against
    measures</a> to reduce contrails.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Protests_in_Milan)
title: Protests in Milan
uri: Protests-in-Milan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Protests_in_Milan)
content:
 
<p>

  *Crowds in Milan <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/18/crowds-in-milan-italy-protest-against-curbs-on-rights-of-same-sex-parents">protest against curbs on rights of same-sex parents</a>.*

 


title: Long term addictions and lung damage from vaping
uri: Long-term-addictions-and-lung-damage-from-vaping
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Long_term_addictions_and_lung_damage_from_vaping)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Long_term_addictions_and_lung_damage_from_vaping)

content:
 
<p>

*   Leading respiratory doctor fears generation could end up with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/18/uk-health-expert-raises-alarm-at-epidemic-of-vaping-among-teenagers">long-term
    addictions and lung damage</a> [from vaping].*

 


title: Deregulation of railways and banks by former saboteur in chief
uri: Deregulation-of-railways-and-banks-by-former-saboteur-in-chief
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Deregulation_of_railways_and_banks_by_former_saboteur_in_chief)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Deregulation_of_railways_and_banks_by_former_saboteur_in_chief)

content:
 
<p>

*The former <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#saboteur">saboteur</a> in chief deregulated railways and banks.  He
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/17/donald-trump-railways-banks-deregulation-blames-biden">blames Biden</a> for the fallout.
<p>
In true hypocritical manner, the ex-president has quickly forgotten why
   the two sectors are in shambles.*

 


title: Right wing accuse critics of conspiracy
uri: Right-wing-accuse-critics-of-conspiracy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Right_wing_accuse_critics_of_conspiracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Right_wing_accuse_critics_of_conspiracy)

content:
 
<p>

*The [right wing accuses its critics] of the <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/10/teneo/#i-grasp">conspiracy they
    themselves engage in</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Biofuel_from_algae)
title: Biofuel from algae
uri: Biofuel-from-algae
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Biofuel_from_algae)
content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#exxon">Exxon</a> claimed it would grow algae to make biofuel without generating
greenhouse gases.  It has now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/17/big-oil-algae-biofuel-funding-cut-exxonmobil">given up on that research</a>.

 


title: Wyoming makes abortion drugs illegal
uri: Wyoming-makes-abortion-drugs-illegal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Wyoming_makes_abortion_drugs_illegal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Wyoming_makes_abortion_drugs_illegal)

content:
 
<p>

  Wyoming, an extreme right-wing state, has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/18/wyoming-becomes-first-us-state-to-outlaw-use-of-abortion-pills">made it a crime</a> to
"prescribe, dispense, distribute, sell or use any drug for the
purpose of procuring or performing an abortion."
<p>
Redistribution of abortion pills will continue, underground, but people must
make sure not to have a snoop-phone in room when they talk about plans.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Party_of_death)
title: Party of death
uri: Party-of-death
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Party_of_death)
content:
 
<p>

  *The [Republican Party] Is a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gop-is-the-party-of-death">Party of Death, Not Life</a>.* 
  I'd say it more strongly: the Republican Party is the party
of excuses to kill people.

 


title: US deporting Russians who fled to avoid draft
uri: US-deporting-Russians-who-fled-to-avoid-draft
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(US_deporting_Russians_who_fled_to_avoid_draft)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(US_deporting_Russians_who_fled_to_avoid_draft)

content:
 
<p>

  The US has recently <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/18/biden-administration-russia-deportations">deported Russians who fled to avoid being drafted</a>
into the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>, despite a previous statement suspending
deportation to Russia.
<p>
This is not only cruel and treacherous, but stupid and self-defeating
as well.  It harms Ukraine's chances and helps Putin.
<p>
The precise rules for asylum are complex, and full of pitfalls that make
it easy to fall into a trap where they say "You didn't follow
some procedural detail so you're screwed, tough luck."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Journalists_on_trial_in_Egypt)
title: Journalists on trial in Egypt
uri: Journalists-on-trial-in-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Journalists_on_trial_in_Egypt)
content:
 
<p>

  *Journalists <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/07/journalists-go-on-trial-in-egypt-for-offending-mps">go on trial in Egypt for "offending MPs."</a>*
<p>
Prosecuting people for charges like that is by itself proof of tyranny,
regardless of whether they are "true."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Stored_methane_leaked)
title: Stored methane leaked
uri: Stored-methane-leaked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Stored_methane_leaked)
content:
 
<p>

Frackers in the US stored methane in an old well.  The seal broke and
a billion cubic feet of powerful greenhouse gas <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/06/us-methane-gas-leak-fracking-jackson-township-pennsylvania">leaked into the air</a>.
<p>
Accidents leaks will happen &mdash; both enormous incidents like this one,
and numerous long-term permanent leaks that add up over time.  This makes
fracking a much <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#15_August_2019_(Cause_of_methane_level_increase)">bigger contributor to global heating</a> than the calculations
predicted.
<p>
We should ban fracking entirely.  This could lead the gas market to
decrease fossil fuel use, as is needed to push industries to
decarbonize.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Industry_hid_dangers_of_gas_stoves)
title: Industry hid dangers of gas stoves
uri: Industry-hid-dangers-of-gas-stoves
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Industry_hid_dangers_of_gas_stoves)
content:
 
<p>

  *Industry <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/gas-stoves">Knew &mdash; and Hid</a> &mdash; Dangers of Gas Stoves Over 50 Years Ago.*

 


title: Elizabeth Warren calls for inquiry into bank collapse
uri: Elizabeth-Warren-calls-for-inquiry-into-bank-collapse
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Elizabeth_Warren_calls_for_inquiry_into_bank_collapse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Elizabeth_Warren_calls_for_inquiry_into_bank_collapse)

content:
 
<p>

*Elizabeth Warren says Fed chair "failed" and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/19/elizabeth-warren-us-bank-collapse-fed-chair-jerome-powell">calls for inquiry into
    bank collapse</a>.*
<p>
He failed because he insisted on interest rate increase after interest
rate increase, fixating attention on a misguided plan to cut inflation
based on <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_March_2023_(Interest_rate_macroeconomics)">misunderstanding its cause</a>,
which <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#18_March_2023_(Financial_speculation_via_banks)">drove banks into failure</a>.

 


title: Freedom of speech violation in Australia
uri: Freedom-of-speech-violation-in-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Freedom_of_speech_violation_in_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(Freedom_of_speech_violation_in_Australia)

content:
 
<p>

The Nazi salute is disgusting, cowardly, and bullying, and naturally
provokes "sadness, outrage and disbelief" &mdash; but its <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/20/victoria-to-ban-nazi-salute-after-anti-trans-protest-melbourne-australia">prohibition by
    the Australian government</a> is a violation of freedom of speech.
<p>
Many Americans were angry at the ACLU when it successfully sued to
establish that Nazis had the right to organize a public rally in the
US.  I may have agreed with that anger for a little while, but after
more thought I concluded that the ACLU was right.  Freedom of speech
is not reliable for anyone if it excludes certain views that most
people strongly disagree with.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(War_on_people_in_pain)
title: War on people in pain
uri: War-on-people-in-pain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(War_on_people_in_pain)
content:
 
<p>

  The US is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/17/health/opioid-chronic-pain-cdc-guidelines-khn-partner/index.html">ramping up the war on people in pain</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(climate_groups_ipcc_report)
title: Climate Groups Reject 'Risky, Untested' Technofixes in IPCC Report
uri: Climate-Groups-Reject-Risky-Untested-Technofixes-in-IPCC-Report
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(climate_groups_ipcc_report)
content:
 
<p>
Plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions must not rely on risky and
untested technologies, such as 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/ipcc-carbon-capture-removal">carbon dioxide removal.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(biden_vetoed_retirement_rule)
title: Biden vetoes Republican effort to overturn socially conscious retirement rule
uri: Biden-vetoes-Republican-effort-to-overturn-socially-conscious-retireme
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(biden_vetoed_retirement_rule)
content:
 
<p>
Biden vetoed a bill passed by Republican legislators (including a
couple of quasi-Democrats) that would have allowed pension funds to
invest people's pensions disregarding how the investments are likely 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/20/joe-biden-first-veto-republicans-retirement-investment">to
lose value due to global heating effects.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(nader_bailing_out_the_rich)
title: Bailing Out the Undeserving Rich—Again
uri: Bailing-Out-the-Undeserving-Rich-Again
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(nader_bailing_out_the_rich)
content:
 
<p>
Ralph Nader looks at fallacies right-wingers use to justify 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/bailing-out-the-rich">impoverishing the non-rich.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(los_angeles_teachers_strike)
title: Tens of Thousands of LA Teachers to Strike in Solidarity With Support Workers
uri: Tens-of-Thousands-of-LA-Teachers-to-Strike-in-Solidarity-With-Support
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#22_March_2023_(los_angeles_teachers_strike)
content:
 
<p>
*Tens of Thousands of LA Teachers to Strike in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/los-angeles-teachers-strike">Solidarity With Support
 Workers.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#23_March_2023_(india_banned_twitter_account)
title: India Banned My Twitter Account For Affirming Civil Liberties in Punjab
uri: India-Banned-My-Twitter-Account-For-Affirming-Civil-Liberties-in-Punja
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#23_March_2023_(india_banned_twitter_account)
content:
 
<p>
Modi regime censors and punishes foreign critics of 
<a href="https://pieterjfriedrich.medium.com/india-banned-my-twitter-account-for-affirming-civil-liberties-in-punjab-e69b1c7afb03">its violations of
human rights.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#23_March_2023_(jetblue_spirit_merger)
title: DOJ Sues to Block 'Blatantly Anti-Competitive' JetBlue-Spirit Airlines Merger
uri: DOJ-Sues-to-Block-Blatantly-Anti-Competitive-JetBlue-Spirit-Airlines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#23_March_2023_(jetblue_spirit_merger)
content:
 
<p>
The US is suing to stop JetBlue and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/jetblue-spirit-merger">Spirit Airlines from merging.</a>
<p>
I'm glad to see the government doing this duty to some extent.
However, to do it fully would require strengthening antitrust law.
If we put progressives in control of Congress, they will do this.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#23_March_2023_(ipcc_survival_guide)
title: Demanding Swift Action, UN Chief Calls IPCC Report a 'Survival Guide for Humanity'
uri: Demanding-Swift-Action-UN-Chief-Calls-IPCC-Report-a-Survival-Guide-f
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#23_March_2023_(ipcc_survival_guide)
content:
 
<p>
UN secretary general Gutierres has endorsed the IPCC's plan for 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/guterres-ipcc-survival-guide-humanity">rapid reduction of fossil fuel use.</a>
<p>
The hard part is convincing governments to carry it out, over the
opposition of fossil fuel companies that are determined to make us
burn every last drop before civilization collapses.
<p>
Several important governments that we might expect to resist it
have 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/ipcc-report-dire-warning">endorsed it already,</a>
<p>
including China, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and the
European Union.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#23_March_2023_(preventing_whale_ship_strikes)
title: We Need a National Strategy on Whale Ship Strikes
uri: We-Need-a-National-Strategy-on-Whale-Ship-Strikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#23_March_2023_(preventing_whale_ship_strikes)
content:
 
<p>
Being hit by ships is a major cause of deaths for endangered whales.
The US should adopt measures to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/preventing-whale-ship-strikes">protect whales from ships.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#23_March_2023_(florida_periods_discussion_ban)
title: Florida considers ban on discussion of menstruation before sixth grade
uri: Florida-considers-ban-on-discussion-of-menstruation-before-sixth-grade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#23_March_2023_(florida_periods_discussion_ban)
content:
 
<p>
*Florida considers ban on discussion of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/20/florida-considers-ban-on-discussion-of-periods-menstruation-before-sixth-grade">menstruation before sixth grade.*</a>
<p>
Some of the students will start menstruation before they reach sixth grade.

<p>
 


title: Prison time for doctors, brain drain, ID
uri: Prison-time-for-doctors-brain-drain-ID
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(Prison_time_for_doctors,_brain_drain,_ID)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(Prison_time_for_doctors,_brain_drain,_ID)

content:
 
<p>
A hospital in Idaho will no longer deliver babies, as Idaho's
repressive laws make it
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/20/idaho-bonner-hospital-baby-delivery-abortion-ban">risky for doctors</a>
to work there.
<p>
It is the only hospital in Sandpoint, which is at the northern tip of
Idaho.  I wonder what is happening elsewhere in that state.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(Border_surveillance,_US-Mexico)
title: Border surveillance, US-Mexico
uri: Border-surveillance-US-Mexico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(Border_surveillance,_US-Mexico)
content:
 
<p>
The EFF has published a complete
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/03/20/border-surveillance-map/">list of the locations</a>
of the highly
visible US surveillance towers on the border with Mexico.
  The US government has a list but has refused to publish it.
<p>
These towers surveil everyone in the border region constantly, but
<a href="/archives/2018-may-jul.html#28_June_2018_(Surveillance_'wall')">they are not the only method</a>.  Citizens that live in or visit the
border are frequently stopped or harasssed while they drive.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(fed_rate_hike_economic_crisis)
title: Critics Warn Another Fed Rate Hike Would Be the 'Straw That Breaks the Camel's Back'
uri: Critics-Warn-Another-Fed-Rate-Hike-Would-Be-the-Straw-That-Breaks-the
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(fed_rate_hike_economic_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
The Federal Reserve plans to keep raising interest rates,
though 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/fed-rate-hike-economic-crisis">perhaps not as quickly.</a>
It may not succeed in curbing inflation,
<p>
but even if it doesn't cause more bank failures, it will put millions
of Americans out of work.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(putin_russia_uk_depleted_uranium)
title: Putin says Russia ‘will respond’ if UK supplies depleted uranium shells to Ukraine
uri: Putin-says-Russia-will-respond-if-UK-supplies-depleted-uranium-s
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(putin_russia_uk_depleted_uranium)
content:
 
<p>
*Putin says Russia "will respond" if UK supplies 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/21/putin-says-russia-will-respond-if-uk-supplies-depleted-uranium-shells-to-ukraine">depleted uranium
shells to Ukraine.*</a>
<p>
I can't imagine what sort of "response" Russia could actually make?
Try to destroy the tanks that would fire these shells?  The Putin forces
will try their best to do that anyway.
<p>
Ukraine should say "no thanks" to these shells, since using them would
pollute Ukrainian territory with Dirty Uranium 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/depleted-uranium-ukraine">fallout for a long
time.</a>
<p>
It causes various sorts of diseases for 
<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/from-iraq-a-tragic-reminder-to-prosecute-the-war-criminals/"> anyone who breathes it in.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(sweden_thunberg_climate_case)
title: Court Rules Greta Thunberg, Others Can Sue Sweden for 'Insufficient Climate Policy'
uri: Court-Rules-Greta-Thunberg-Others-Can-Sue-Sweden-for-Insufficient-Cl
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(sweden_thunberg_climate_case)
content:
 
<p>
*A Swedish court &hellip; ruled that &hellip; youth climate
activists including Greta Thunberg can collectively sue Sweden
for the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/sweden-greta-thunberg-climate-case">government's "insufficient climate policy."*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_((satire)_foodstamps_rutabaga)
title: (satire) Congress Rules Food Stamps Can Only Be Used On Rutabagas
uri: (satire)-Congress-Rules-Food-Stamps-Can-Only-Be-Used-On-Rutabagas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_((satire)_foodstamps_rutabaga)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Congress Rules Food Stamps 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/congress-rules-food-stamps-can-only-be-used-on-rutabaga-1850237759">Can Only Be Used On Rutabagas.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_((satire)_lunch_program)
title: (satire) Politicians Explain Why They Oppose Free School Lunch Programs
uri: (satire)-Politicians-Explain-Why-They-Oppose-Free-School-Lunch-Program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_((satire)_lunch_program)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Politicians Explain Why They 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/politicians-explain-why-they-oppose-free-school-lunch-p-1850238067">Oppose [Gratis] School Lunch Programs.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(metropolitan_police_louise_casey)
title: Met police found to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic
uri: Met-police-found-to-be-institutionally-racist-misogynistic-and-homoph
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(metropolitan_police_louise_casey)
content:
 
<p>
A government-commission report found that the "Metropolitan Police",
which is the thug depart ment for London and does other things
nationally, is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/21/metropolitan-police-institutionally-racist-misogynistic-homophobic-louise-casey-report">pervaded by racism and sexism and other forms of
bigotry.</a>
<p>
This includes harsh bullying by thugs against thugs, as well as
against everyone else.  In London, polls find that most people do
not trust it.
<p>
Here'a a description of the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/21/louise-caseys-report-on-the-met-police-the-fall-of-a-british-institution">bad things it does.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(misguided_policies_economic_growth)
title: Economic growth is not a magic wand for ending poverty
uri: Economic-growth-is-not-a-magic-wand-for-ending-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(misguided_policies_economic_growth)
content:
 
<p>
*Economic growth is not a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/mar/20/economic-growth-is-not-a-magic-wand-for-ending-poverty">magic wand for ending poverty.</a>
<p>
our focus should be on reducing inequality not increasing GDP.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(high_us_maternal_mortality)
title: US maternal mortality is more than 10 times higher than in Australia. Why?
uri: US-maternal-mortality-is-more-than-10-times-higher-than-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(high_us_maternal_mortality)
content:
 
<p>
*US maternal mortality is more than ten times 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/20/us-maternal-mortality-rate-climbing-health-crisis">higher than in Australia.*</a>
<p>
It is not easy to measure the causes of this, but we know that they
include consequences of the pandemic of Covid-19, a general attitude
of disregard for women's medical needs and health, and racism (black
American mothers are even more likely to die).

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(un_chief_calls_for_halt)
title: UN Chief Calls for Halt to New Fossil Fuel Development Ahead of Climate Ambition Summit
uri: UN-Chief-Calls-for-Halt-to-New-Fossil-Fuel-Development-Ahead-of-Climat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(un_chief_calls_for_halt)
content:
 
<p>
Secretary General Guterres has set up a climate summit for September,
with a new demand for earnestness: for a country to be invited, it
will have to pledne to end licensing and funding of new oil and gas
reserves and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/un-chief-calls-for-halt-to-new-fossil-fuel-development-ahead-of-climate-ambition-summit">expansion of old ones.</a>
Bravo, Gutierres!  It is heart-warming to see someone in a position of
importance who recognizes what priorities are needed for survival.
<p>
With his influence, he has a chance of overcoming the power of fossil
fools.  It won't be easy to beat tham, but civilization depends on it,
and every young person's life is at risk.

<p>
 


title: Calls for ban on light-polluting mass satellite groups like Elon Musk’s Starlink
uri: 2023-03-24-
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(light_polluting_mass_satellite_groups)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(light_polluting_mass_satellite_groups)

content:
 
<p>
Astronomers call for people to support banning projects that involve
putting large number of satellites into low Earth orbit, to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/20/light-polluting-mass-satellite-groups-must-be-regulated-say-scientists">preserve
the darkness of night.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#26_March_2023_(But_they_were_such_nice_neighbors__)
title: But they were such nice neighbors
uri: But-they-were-such-nice-neighbors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#26_March_2023_(But_they_were_such_nice_neighbors__)
content:
 
<p>
(satire)
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/neighbors-shocked-to-hear-quiet-unassuming-ar-15-went-1850213870">*Neighbors Shocked To Hear</a>
Quiet, Unassuming AR-15 Went On Killing Rampage.*

<p>
 


title: Cheap-fix climate calamity: top methane leakers
uri: Cheap-fix-climate-calamity-top-methane-leakers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Cheap-fix_climate_calamity:_top_methane_leakers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Cheap-fix_climate_calamity:_top_methane_leakers)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/06/revealed-1000-super-emitting-methane-leaks-risk-triggering-climate-tipping-points">Vast releases</a>
of [methane] gas, along with future "methane bombs,"
represent huge threat &mdash; but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Check presidential war powers
uri: Urgent-Check-presidential-war-powers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Urgent:_Check_presidential_war_powers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Urgent:_Check_presidential_war_powers)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/repeal-91-02-aumfs?akid=8704.223515.7Hhn8u&c0=repeal-91-02-aumfs.RhcOV1&rd=1&source=em20230315_2&t=1006">repeal the 1991 and 2002
authorizations</a>
for the US to send forces to fight in Iraq.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: End-to-end, message encryption
uri: Urgent-End-to-end-message-encryption
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Urgent:_End-to-end,_message_encryption)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Urgent:_End-to-end,_message_encryption)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/big-tech-we-need-end-to-end-encrypted-messaging-now?nowrapper=true">call on Big Tech</a>
to implement end-to-end encrypted messaging now.
<p>
Messaging applications that involve through nonfree client software
are unjust, and endanger your privacy, regardless of whether
they do end-to-end encryption, because the encryption could be
ineffective or snoop on users.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Banking_crises,_who_benefits_)
title: Banking crises, who benefits
uri: Banking-crises-who-benefits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Banking_crises,_who_benefits_)
content:
 
<p>
*Jamie Dimon [along with other big stockholders in "too big to fail"
banks] Is
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whos-making-the-most-from-the-banking">Poised to Benefit Most</a>
From This Banking Crisis.*

*<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-undeserving-rich">Bailing Out the Undeserving</a>
Rich &mdash; Again.*
<p>
That article falls into the confusion spread by the term "intellectual
property".  It is an incoherent generalization about laws that have
very little in common.  To group those laws (or even some of those laws)
together and talk about them together is a mistake.

<p>
 


title: White Supremacist leader arrested, CA
uri: White-Supremacist-leader-arrested-CA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(White_Supremacist_leader_arrested,_CA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(White_Supremacist_leader_arrested,_CA)

content:
 
<p>
*Leader of White supremacist group [in California] arrested for
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/politics/white-supremacist-group-arrested-for-threatening-to-kill-journalist/index.html">threatening to kill journalist</a>
trying to report on [that group].*

<p>
 


title: Urgent: For chemical safety undo RR lobbyists
uri: Urgent-For-chemical-safety-undo-RR-lobbyists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Urgent:_For_chemical_safety_undo_RR_lobbyists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Urgent:_For_chemical_safety_undo_RR_lobbyists)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-now-protect-communities-from-corporate-railroad-greed?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-just-strategy&source=group-just-strategy">call on Biden to protect communities</a>
from the effects of railroad companies' greed.
<p>The White House comments lines are 
<a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.</p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_((Satire)_Easy_access_abortion)
title: (Satire) Easy access abortion
uri: (Satire)-Easy-access-abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_((Satire)_Easy_access_abortion)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Walgreens Clarifies
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/walgreens-clarifies-stores-still-selling-plenty-of-hous-1850198478">Stores Still Selling Plenty</a>
Of Household Products That'll Abort A Fetus.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Ninth_rate_hike_assailed)
title: Ninth rate hike assailed
uri: Ninth-rate-hike-assailed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Ninth_rate_hike_assailed)
content:
 
<p>
*The Fed Accused of
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/federal-reserve-rate-hikes-banks">"Playing With Fire"</a>
After Latest Rate Hike.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(A_human_right,_housing)
title: A human right, housing
uri: A-human-right-housing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(A_human_right,_housing)
content:
 
<p>
Progressive Democrats have proposed to define housing as a human right
and spend
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/housing-is-a-human-right">300 billion dollars to fulfill that right</a>.
<p>
I am in favor.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Private_equity_verses_healthcare)
title: Private equity verses healthcare
uri: Private-equity-verses-healthcare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Private_equity_verses_healthcare)
content:
 
<p>
Public Citizen: *Private equity's ownership of U.S. healthcare providers is
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/private-equity-healthcare">incompatible with the needs and best interests</a>
of patients and should be checked with federal legislation.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Urgent:_US_Budget)
title: Urgent: US Budget
uri: Urgent-US-Budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Urgent:_US_Budget)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and your senators
reject right-wing budget cuts and pass Biden's budget.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Monarchs'_extinction_fears)
title: Monarchs' extinction fears
uri: Monarchs-extinction-fears
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Monarchs'_extinction_fears)
content:
 
<p>
*Fears of Monarch Butterfly Extinction as
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/monarch-butterflies">Numbers Plummet 22%</a>
in Annual Count.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(MI_GOP_invoke_Nazis_again)
title: MI GOP invoke Nazis again
uri: MI-GOP-invoke-Nazis-again
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(MI_GOP_invoke_Nazis_again)
content:
 
<p>
The Michigan Republican Party published a meme
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/migop-invokes-holocaust-to-oppose-gun-violence-prevention-bills">comparing a proposed law
to reduce gun violence with the Nazis'</a>
collection of murdered Jews' wedding rings.
<p>
The Republican Party is now full of Nazis.  Won't they take offense at
comparing a Nazi activity that they admire with something such as gun
control that they despise?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Water_as_a_human_right,_US)
title: Water as a human right, US
uri: Water-as-a-human-right-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Water_as_a_human_right,_US)
content:
 
<p>
*Water's Moment:
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/drinking-water-as-a-human-right">Advancing the Human Right to Water</a>
in the United States.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Managed_energy_descent,_rationing)
title: Managed energy descent, rationing
uri: Managed-energy-descent-rationing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Managed_energy_descent,_rationing)
content:
 
<p>
*Why We Can't Just Do It:
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/failure-to-curb-emissions">The Truth About Our Failure</a>
to Curb Carbon Emissions.*
<p>
I don't know whether the factual claims in the article are true.  I am
surprised by the claim that building the renewable energy facilities
we need would require a significant increase in the amount of
industrial activity.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(snap_benefits_cut)
title: Low-income Americans face a ‘hunger cliff’ as Snap benefits are cut
uri: Low-income-Americans-face-a-hunger-cliff-as-Snap-benefits-are-cu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(snap_benefits_cut)
content:
 
<p>
*Low-income Americans face a "hunger cliff" as 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/17/snap-food-benefits-us-cuts-impact-families">Snap benefits are cut.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(bambi_holocaust_allegory)
title: Gunned down and burned by the Nazis: the shocking true story of Bambi
uri: Gunned-down-and-burned-by-the-Nazis-the-shocking-true-story-of-Bambi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(bambi_holocaust_allegory)
content:
 
<p>
Before Maus, there 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/21/gunned-down-burned-nazis-bambi-walt-disney-holocaust-allegory">was &hellip; Bambi.</a>

<p>
 


title: Multiple civilian deaths linked to 2016-17 British airstrikes against IS in Mosul
uri: Multiple-civilian-deaths-linked-to-2016-17-British-airstrikes-against
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(deaths_linked_british_airstrikes_mosul)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(deaths_linked_british_airstrikes_mosul)

content:
 
<p>
The UK government has claimed for years that it was totally successful
in fighting PISSI in Mosul.  Now there is proof that some of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/21/multiple-civilian-deaths-linked-to-2016-17-british-airstrikes-against-is-in-mosul">its
bombing killed civilians.</a>
The British government did wrong to deny the civilian casualties.  It
should have admitted those consequences.
<p>
That does not necessarily imply that those attacks were wrong.  This
was a necessary and justified war; fighting PISSI was necessary and
called for.  Military action always has a risk of going awry, which
could kill bystanders.  That doesn't imply that fighting is always
wrong.
<p>
Whether the UK forces acted with proper care to reduce that risk, I
don't know.  It may have made mistakes.  Everyone makes mistakes, and
mistakes are very common in the fog of war.
<p>
No army is perfect.  Knowing that, we should think carefully before
fighting a war.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(curbing_big_bank_ceo_greed)
title: Curbing Bad Behavior of Bank CEOs Isn't as Hard as They Make It Seem
uri: Curbing-Bad-Behavior-of-Bank-CEOs-Isn-t-as-Hard-as-They-Make-It-Seem
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(curbing_big_bank_ceo_greed)
content:
 
<p>
Proposing a specific change in the law to enable the US government to
confiscate the money that executives of failed banks (such as Silicon
Valley Bank) personally extracted by putting the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/curbing-big-bank-ceo-greed">banks at risk of
failure.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(uk_fishing_industry_underreporting)
title: UK fishing vessels ‘underreporting’ whale, dolphin and porpoise by catch
uri: UK-fishing-vessels-underreporting-whale-dolphin-and-porpoise-by
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#24_March_2023_(uk_fishing_industry_underreporting)
content:
 
<p>
*UK fishing industry underreporting whale, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/21/uk-fishing-industry-underreporting-whale-dolphin-porpoise-bycatch">dolphin and porpoise by catch.*</a>

<p>
 


title: Climate calamity cheap fix: the vast methane leaks
uri: Climate-calamity-cheap-fix-the-vast-methane-leaks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Climate_calamity_cheap_fix:_the_vast_methane_leaks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_March_2023_(Climate_calamity_cheap_fix:_the_vast_methane_leaks)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/06/revealed-1000-super-emitting-methane-leaks-risk-triggering-climate-tipping-points">Vast releases</a>
of [methane] gas, along with future "methane bombs,"
represent huge threat &mdash; but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.*

<p>
 


title: What ABA wants from Senate Banking Committee
uri: What-ABA-wants-from-Senate-Banking-Committee
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(What_ABA_wants_from_Banking_Committee)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(What_ABA_wants_from_Banking_Committee)

content:
 
<p>
US bankers don't want the sort of
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/bankers-applaud-republican-regulations">regulations that would prevent banks
from failing</a>.

<p>
 


title: Attribution science bolsters Climate homicide case
uri: Attribution-science-bolsters-Climate-homicide-case
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Attribution_science_bolsters_Climate_homicide)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Attribution_science_bolsters_Climate_homicide)

content:
 
<p>
Calling for
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-homicide-big-oil-disaster-deaths">criminal prosecution</a>
of the big planet-roaster corporations.
<p>
*A
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/22/big-oil-companies-homicide-harvard-environmental-law-review">radical climate strategy</a>
emerges: charge big oil firms with homicide.*

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Support the Amazon Labor Union
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Amazon-Labor-Union
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Urgent:_Support_the_Amazon_Labor_Union)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Urgent:_Support_the_Amazon_Labor_Union)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-amazon-come-to-the-table-with-amazon-labor-union-3?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-acttv&source=group-acttv">call on Amazon to start negotiating</a>
with the Amazon Labor Union.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Urgent:_Act_for_insulin)
title: Urgent: Act for insulin
uri: Urgent-Act-for-insulin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Urgent:_Act_for_insulin)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: Support the
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/become-a-grassroots-co-sponsor-of-the-insulin-for-all-act?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-just-strategy&source=group-just-strategy">Insulin for All Act</a>.
<p>
The name of that proposed law is badly formulated, since we don't want
everyone to take insulin!  Most people don't need to.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Reject Florida bill to censor bloggers
uri: Urgent-Reject-Florida-bill-to-censor-bloggers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Urgent:_Reject_Florida_bill_to_censor_bloggers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Urgent:_Reject_Florida_bill_to_censor_bloggers)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Florida legislature to <a href="https://act.freepress.net/sign/reject-anti-speech-bill">reject the bill to
    censor bloggers</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Ban government contracts for pharmacies that won't carry Mifepristone
uri: Urgent-Ban-government-contracts-for-pharmacies-that-won-t-carry-Mifep
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Urgent:_Ban_government_contracts_for_pharmacies_that_won't_carry_Mifepristone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Urgent:_Ban_government_contracts_for_pharmacies_that_won't_carry_Mifepristone)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-an-executive-action-from-president-biden-no-government-contracts-for-pharmacies-that-refuse-to-carry-mifepristone">ban government contracts for pharmacies
    that refuse to carry Mifepristone</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Admit Washington DC as a state
uri: Urgent-Admit-Washington-DC-as-a-state
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Urgent:_Admit_Washington_DC_as_a_state)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Urgent:_Admit_Washington_DC_as_a_state)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-congress-pass-the-washington-dc-admission-act-now">admit Washington DC as a state</a>.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

 


title: Urgent: Investigate Speaker McCarthy
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Speaker-McCarthy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Urgent:_Investigate_Speaker_McCarthy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Urgent:_Investigate_Speaker_McCarthy)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the House Ethics Committee to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/investigate-speaker-mccarthy">investigate Speaker
    McCarthy</a> for giving Tucker Carlson the complete security video of the Jan 6
attack.

 


title: Urgent: Continue participation in ERIC
uri: Urgent-Continue-participation-in-ERIC
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Urgent:_Continue_participation_in_ERIC)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Urgent:_Continue_participation_in_ERIC)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on state legislatures to <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-state-legislators-remain-partnered-with-eric/">continue participation in
    ERIC</a>, an organization of states which help each other reconcile their
voter lists.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Tories_assessments_of_disabled)
title: Tories assessments of disabled
uri: Tories-assessments-of-disabled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Tories_assessments_of_disabled)
content:
 
<p>

The Tories say they will end their inhumane policy of having
bureaucrats <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/22/good-riddance-tories-work-capability-assessment-cruellest-social-policy">arbitrarily disbelieve doctors' assessments</a> that some
specific person is disabled and needs specific kinds of state aid.
<p>
Such policy decisions can transform a capable and independent person,
perhaps employed despite a disability, into a helpless cripple.  That
change often entails no alteration in the person in question: a change
in how society treats per is enough.
<p>
Is this really the cruelest social policy of modern times?  I don't
know.  Australia's off-shore immigration prison, which the UK is
planning to imitate, could give it strong competition.
<p>
Don't believe this promise until it really happens.  Tories often say
they will make a change for the less cruel and then don't actually do
it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Keeping_poor_people_poor)
title: Keeping poor people poor
uri: Keeping-poor-people-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Keeping_poor_people_poor)
content:
 
<p>

Analyzing how the US social, economic and legal systems <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/22/trump-black-procesutors-racism">keep poor
    people poor</a>.

 


title: Ways for US to pressure against annexation of Palestine
uri: Ways-for-US-to-pressure-against-annexation-of-Palestine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Ways_for_US_to_pressure_against_annexation_of_Palestine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Ways_for_US_to_pressure_against_annexation_of_Palestine)

content:
 
<p>

J Street recommends ways for the US to <a href="https://act.jstreet.org/go/244929">pressure Israel against annexation
    of Palestine</a>.

 


title: Australia's proposed indigenous voice to parliament
uri: Australia-s-proposed-indigenous-voice-to-parliament
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Australia's_proposed_indigenous_voice_to_parliament)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Australia's_proposed_indigenous_voice_to_parliament)

content:
 
<p>

  Does Australia's proposed indigenous voice to parliament <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/23/anthony-albanese-launches-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-referendum-question">carry "authority"</a>?
<p>
This article describes the proposed agency in sufficient detail to
show that it would communicate indigenous concerns directly to
parliament (that is, give advice) but would not have authority over
parliament's decisions.  The description seems clear to me.  If I were
Australian, I would vote yes to that.
<p>
However, the article says that changes demanded by right-wingers would
have "reduced the authority of the voice’s advice."  The use of the
word "authority" in regard to it makes me wonder if there is a crucial
misunderstanding at work here &mdash; if the words "advice to parliament"
would be interpreted as implicitly giving the voice some sort of
authority over some aspect of parliament's decisions.
<p>
That would make non-aboriginals second-class citizens in Australian
democracy.
<p>
If I were Australian I would want an explanation of what "authority"
means in this context.  Is it a real issue or just a poor choice of
words?

 


title: Large sums of money to restart Palisades Nuclear plant
uri: Large-sums-of-money-to-restart-Palisades-Nuclear-plant
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Large_sums_of_money_to_restart_Palisades_Nuclear_plant)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Large_sums_of_money_to_restart_Palisades_Nuclear_plant)

content:
 
<p>

A company that undertook to decommission the Palisades nuclear power
plant now <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/palisades-nuclear-power-plant">seeks large sums of money to restart it instead</a>.
<p>
The campaign to oppose this asserts, based on the plant's history of
problems, that the plant is decrepit and particularly unsafe.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Overconsumption_of_water)
title: Overconsumption of water
uri: Overconsumption-of-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Overconsumption_of_water)
content:
 
<p>

*Secretary general urges countries to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/22/un-water-conference-warns-worsening-scarcity">tackle "vampiric overconsumption" [of water],
    water guzzling industries and climate crisis</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Pushing_for_reckless_mining)
title: Pushing for "reckless mining"
uri: Pushing-for-reckless-mining
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Pushing_for_reckless_mining)
content:
 
<p>

*British Head of Deep Sea Authority Accused of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/seabed-authority-deep-sea-mining">Pushing for "Reckless"
    Mining</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Rwanda's_prisons)
title: Rwanda's prisons
uri: Rwanda-s-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Rwanda's_prisons)
content:
 
<p>

The Tories still want to send all unauthorized immigrants to prison in
Rwanda.  The US judges Rwanda's prisons as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/21/us-describes-conditions-in-rwandas-detention-centres-as-harsh-to-life-threatening">cruel and life-threatening</a>,
and the general censorship (including imprisoning journalists) in
Rwanda makes it hard for people to push to change those conditions.
<p>
  Look at how hard it is to change <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#29_September_2013_(California_prisoners_united_against_inhumane_treatment)">cruel prison conditions</a> in <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#17%20July%202006%20(Prison%20labor)">the US</a>,
  where the press is mostly free; in Rwanda it must be impossible.

 


title: Additional data on Wuhan live animal market
uri: Additional-data-on-Wuhan-live-animal-market
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Additional_data_on_Wuhan_live_animal_market)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Additional_data_on_Wuhan_live_animal_market)

content:
 
<p>

  China has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/21/newly-released-chinese-covid-data-infected-animals-wuhan">released additional data</a> collected in the Wuhan live animal
market in the investigation of Covid-19 in December 2019.

 


title: FBI attempted to entrap BLM activists
uri: FBI-attempted-to-entrap-BLM-activists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(FBI_attempted_to_entrap_BLM_activists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(FBI_attempted_to_entrap_BLM_activists)

content:
 
<p>

In 2020 the FBI infiltrated agents into Black Lives Matter protest groups
and tried <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/03/21/fbi-colorado-springs-surveillance/">entrapping activists into buying guns illegally</a>.

 


title: Tax-free retirement and inheritance accounts
uri: Tax-free-retirement-and-inheritance-accounts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Tax-free_retirement_and_inheritance_accounts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Tax-free_retirement_and_inheritance_accounts)

content:
 
<p>

The Tories are about to hold a vote on giving rich people permission
to put any quantity of money into a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/21/rishi-sunak-99-per-cent-pensions-hike-rich-chancellor">tax-free retirement and inheritance
    account</a>.
  This would be a big tax cut for the rich.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(National_reckoning_about_Iraq_war)
title: National reckoning about Iraq war
uri: National-reckoning-about-Iraq-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(National_reckoning_about_Iraq_war)
content:
 
<p>

  *It Is Time for a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/it-is-time-for-a-national-reckoning-about-the-iraq-war">National Reckoning</a> About the Iraq War.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(US_belligerence)
title: US belligerence
uri: US-belligerence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(US_belligerence)
content:
 
<p>

Arguing that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dubya">Dubya</a> attacked Iraq because it would <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/iraq-invasion-not-just-for-oil">make a good example
    of US belligerence</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(US_export_terminals_for_natural_gas)
title: US export terminals for natural gas
uri: US-export-terminals-for-natural-gas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(US_export_terminals_for_natural_gas)
content:
 
<p>

  The US is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/20/ukraine-is-a-false-justification-americas-destructive-new-rush-for-natural-gas">building many export terminals for natural gas</a>.
<p>
The excuse for them is the war in Ukraine and the short-term shortage
of available fossil methane, but they won't be finished until 2025.
After that, their owners will use them to lobby for permission
to extract more gas.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Right-wing_culture_war_scapegoating)
title: Right-wing "culture war" scapegoating
uri: Right-wing-culture-war-scapegoating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Right-wing_culture_war_scapegoating)
content:
 
<p>

No one is safe from the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/20/gary-lineker-culture-war-government-cruelty-migrants-rights">right-wing "culture war"'s scapegoating and
    repression</a>.
<p>
Alas, something similar is true of the progressive youth's censorship
campaign.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Political_violence,_Modi)
title: Political violence, Modi
uri: Political-violence-Modi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Political_violence,_Modi)
content:
 
<p>
Rahul Gandhi, leader of India's principal opposition party, was
expelled from Parliament after being
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/rahul-gandhi">convicted of "defamation"</a>
for insulting Prime Minister Modi.
<p>
It was, indeed, rather insulting to all other Indians named Modi.
Gandhi should not have said that.  But it is not grounds to put anyone
in prison.
<p>
In the US, I am pretty sure that saying that "all thieves have Trump
as their common surname" would not not be slander against Trump.  So I
am pretty sure that India's standards for convicting someone of
defamation of a politician are too weak.

<p>
 


title: Cognitive liberty V. psychological warfare
uri: Cognitive-liberty-V-psychological-warfare
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Cognitive_liberty_V._psychological_warfare)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Cognitive_liberty_V._psychological_warfare)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/25/tiktok-china-cognitive-warfare-us-ban">Armies are developing weapons</a>
to attack countries by manipulating how
people think.  TikTok can be seen as one, and Facebook too.
<p>
The author is right to generalize this beyond TikTok, since many other
antisocial media platforms can do similar things.
<p>
Systems to attack or control the human brain are being worked on.
Even if technology never reaches the point of planting specific thoughts
in a brain, it could be capable of conditioning people.  All that takes
is the ability to make someone feel good or bad.
<p>
Eventually this will be one of the reasons to reject nonfree software.
  
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(First_blood,_Cop_City)
title: First blood, Cop City
uri: First-blood-Cop-City
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(First_blood,_Cop_City)
content:
 
  <p>
*Officers in ‘Cop City’ raid
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/25/cop-city-raid-georgia-officers-manuel-paez-teran">shot pepperball gun</a>
into [Manuel Paez Terán]'s tent first.*
<p>
This means that the thugs started the shooting.  They said he did that.
<p>
The article presents reasons to distrust their testimony, in addition
to the likelihood that (being thugs) they are probably habituated to
perjury.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Anti-strike_law,_UK)
title: Anti-strike law, UK
uri: Anti-strike-law-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Anti-strike_law,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
The Tories propose to pass a law that prohibits many groups of workers
from completely striking.  Some unions now propose to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/25/unions-anti-strike-laws-minimum-service-levels-bill">strike anyway</a>
and go to jail.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Political_violence_sooth,_Rwanda)
title: Political violence sooth, Rwanda
uri: Political-violence-sooth-Rwanda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Political_violence_sooth,_Rwanda)
content:
 
<p>
*Hotel Rwanda's Paul Rusesabagina to be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/24/hotel-rwanda-paul-rusesabagina-to-be-released-from-prison">released from prison</a>*
  in response to US pressure.  The US considers his trial for "terrorism"
to be unfair.

 


title: In Chicago mayoral runoff, a financial abuser
uri: In-Chicago-mayoral-runoff-a-financial-abuser
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(In_Chicago_mayoral_runoff,_a_financial_abuser)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(In_Chicago_mayoral_runoff,_a_financial_abuser)

content:
 
<p>
*When he led the Chicago school system,
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/r/da3fdc4d?m=a1296444-4385-46f7-b56f-c5acabd34844">mayoral candidate Paul Vallas</a>
took actions that resulted in more than $1.5 billion being
transferred out of the city’s budget-strapped public schools and to
some of the wealthiest individuals and banks on the planet, a new
report shows.*

<p>
 


title: Cognitive liberty V. psychological warfare
uri: 2023-03-28-Cognitive-liberty-V-psychological-warfare
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Cognitive_liberty_V._psychological_warfare)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Cognitive_liberty_V._psychological_warfare)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/25/tiktok-china-cognitive-warfare-us-ban">Armies are developing weapons</a>
to attack countries by manipulating how
people think.  TikTok can be seen as one, and Facebook too.
<p>
The author is right to generalize this beyond TikTok, since many other
antisocial media platforms can do similar things.
<p>
Systems to attack or control the human brain are being worked on.
Even if technology never reaches the point of planting specific thoughts
in a brain, it could be capable of conditioning people.  All that takes
is the ability to make someone feel good or bad.
<p>
Eventually this will be one of the reasons to reject nonfree software.
  
<p>
 


title: Private surveillance on public roads, TX
uri: Private-surveillance-on-public-roads-TX
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Private_surveillance_on_public_roads,_TX)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Private_surveillance_on_public_roads,_TX)

content:
 
<p>
The car tracking company
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/03/22/hoa-surveillance-license-plate-police-flock/">Flock  made a deal with a homeowner's
association</a>
to install surveillance cameras in Lakeway, Texas, without even
consulting or informing the city government.
  (The city's thug department did participate in the deal.)
<p>
The fact that the government was kept out of the matter is a
additional secondary outrage, but the system itself would be no less
unjust if the city government had approved such tracking.
<p>
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">Tracking people's movements is an injustice</a>,
   and the foundation of
repression.  No person or entity, whether governmental or private,
should be allowed to track a car except under a warrant ordering
tracking in a specific place for a bounded time.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Public_utility_privatization,_UK)
title: Public utility privatization, UK
uri: Public-utility-privatization-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Public_utility_privatization,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Privatized water companies in the UK
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/22/water-firms-focused-on-returns-at-expense-of-environment-say-peers">put profit over the environment</a>.
  Somehow I am not surprised.  The government agency in charge of them
did not insist that they spend enough to maintain the sewers.
That does not surprise me either.  Between lobbying and the revolving door,
it doesn't take much to persuade a plutocratist politician to do what
perse is naturally inclined to do: shaft the non-rich.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Political_campaign_stunt)
title: Political campaign stunt
uri: Political-campaign-stunt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Political_campaign_stunt)
content:
 
<p>
The corrupter expects to be arrested soon, and seeks to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/22/trump-wants-to-be-handcuffed-for-court-appearance-in-stormy-daniels-case-sources-say">turn the arrest
into a campaign appearance</a>.
<p>
Commit crimes against those who are weaker, get arrested,
and call yourself the victim &mdash; typical Republican.
Compare with George Santos.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Prescription_drug_costs,_US)
title: Prescription drug costs, US
uri: Prescription-drug-costs-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Prescription_drug_costs,_US)
content:
 
<p>
Biden had a chance to make a drug company
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/march-in-rights-xtandi">reduce the price of prostate
cancer drug Astellas</a>
down to what it costs in other advanced countries.   He didn't do it.
<p>
The article points out that the US government funded the drug's
development.  That was what gave Biden a legal opportunity to force
the price down, but morally I don't think it makes a crucial
difference.  We should not allow gouging on saving people's lives.
<p>
We should eliminate the patent system, especially in medicine,
agriculture and software.

<p>
 


title: Interest rate increases, and bank runs
uri: Interest-rate-increases-and-bank-runs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Interest_rate_increases,_and_bank_runs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Interest_rate_increases,_and_bank_runs)

content:
 
<p>
Ralph Nader: Powell should have known in advance
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/socialism-for-wall-street">the danger of his
interest rate increases</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Parents_trump_teachers,_FL)
title: Parents trump teachers, FL
uri: Parents-trump-teachers-FL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Parents_trump_teachers,_FL)
content:
 
<p>
A Florida principal fired was after a Renaissance art class showed
students a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/25/florida-school-principal-fired-michelangelo-porn-desantis-law">photo of a famous nude statue</a>.
<p>
A school board official said that a complaint from any number of
parents &mdash; even just one &mdash; justifies firing the principal.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Violence_against_protesters,_France)
title: Violence against protesters, France
uri: Violence-against-protesters-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(Violence_against_protesters,_France)
content:
 
<p>
French thugs used
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/25/french-police-accused-of-using-excessive-force-during-pension-protests">violence on peaceful protesters</a>.

<p>
 


title: In Chicago mayoral runnoff, a financial abuser
uri: In-Chicago-mayoral-runnoff-a-financial-abuser
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(In_Chicago_mayoral_runnoff,_a_financial_abuser)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_March_2023_(In_Chicago_mayoral_runnoff,_a_financial_abuser)

content:
 
<p>
*When he led the Chicago school system,
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/r/da3fdc4d?m=a1296444-4385-46f7-b56f-c5acabd34844">mayoral candidate Paul Vallas</a>
took actions that resulted in more than $1.5 billion being
transferred out of the city’s budget-strapped public schools and to
some of the wealthiest individuals and banks on the planet, a new
report shows.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Parents_rights,_school_politics)
title: Parents rights, school politics
uri: Parents-rights-school-politics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Parents_rights,_school_politics)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans in Congress passed a bill to help
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/federal-book-banning-bill">right-wing
parents pressure schools</a>
to remove books from the library and subjects from the curriculum.
<p>
It is designed to attack sex education and education about treatment
of minorities.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(The_bully_tells_his_prosecuters)
title: The bully tells his prosecuters
uri: The-bully-tells-his-prosecuters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(The_bully_tells_his_prosecuters)
content:
 
<p>
The wrecker is trying to intimidate US prosecutors out of arresting
him by threatening that his followers will start
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-death-destruction">violence in response</a>.
<p>
So far, it has worked.  But if we allow such a plan to go
unpunished, it will keep escalating.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Sober-state_creativity_rules)
title: Sober-state creativity rules
uri: Sober-state-creativity-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Sober-state_creativity_rules)
content:
 
<p>
*Drugs and alcohol do not make [people] more creative,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/24/drugs-and-alcohol-do-not-make-you-more-creative-research-finds">research finds</a>.
Travel, meditation, training and exposure to culture have a greater effect on artistic output.*
<p>
*People who took psilocybin felt they were more creative while on the
drug, but were actually underperforming relative to their sober state.*
<p>
Those results are statistical.  There can be occasional exceptions,
such as *if you have a vision on hallucinogenics and paint a beautiful
picture inspired by it.*

<p>
 


title: Gov. mismanaged river an ecological disaster, AU
uri: Gov-mismanaged-river-an-ecological-disaster-AU
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Mismanaged_river_ecological_disaster,_AU)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Mismanaged_river_ecological_disaster,_AU)

content:
 
<p>
Inland reaches of Australia's longest river, the Murray, are suffering
a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/25/at-menindee-the-lifeblood-of-the-people-has-turned-to-bitter-sludge">continuing ecological crisis</a>.
<p>
From what I have read before, it has to do with taking too much water
out of the river for irrigation.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(A_dictator's_killing_machine)
title: A dictator's killing machine
uri: A-dictator-s-killing-machine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(A_dictator's_killing_machine)
content:
 
<p>
A plane which the Argentine military used for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/24/argentina-dictatorship-death-flight-plane-return-from-us">throwing protesters into
the sea</a>
is being returned to Argentina.  It will be kept in a museum
to help make the dictators' murders real to today's Argentines.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Trying_Putin's_war_crimes)
title: Trying Putin's war crimes
uri: Trying-Putin-s-war-crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Trying_Putin's_war_crimes)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/is-putin-a-war-criminal">The US Congress supports</a>
trying Putin for war crimes.  That is what he
deserves &mdash; but so do some American politicians.
<p>
This is an instance of hypocrisy: the US supports doing justice in one
case and opposes it in another similar case.  In the Putin case, the
US stance is correct &mdash; in the Dubya case, the US stance is wrong.
<p>
There are people who would argue that this hypocrisy is a reason not
to punish Putin.  That is misguided reasoning.  The proper response to
hypocrisy is to change the conduct in the case where it is wrong (US
war criminals), not to change it in the case where it is right
(Putin).
<p>
I support trying and punishing Putin, all else being equal.  But I
think we may end up in a situation where a just peace (Putin
relinquishes the territory and Ukrainians that the Putin forces have
seized, and ends the fighting) is possible
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Fallacious_cease-fire_argument)">but only in exchange for
not trying to cature and try Putin</a>.
If this happens, I say we should take that deal.

<p>
 


title: Another weakened bank: regulations "unnecessary"
uri: Another-weakened-bank-regulations-unnecessary
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Another_weakened_bank:_regulations_unnecessary)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Another_weakened_bank:_regulations_unnecessary)

content:
 
<p>
*Only
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/r/eea2bcf0?m=a1296444-4385-46f7-b56f-c5acabd34844">months before its troubles</a>,
First Republic pressured bank overseers to preserve the status quo.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(No_to_prosecuting_protesters,_UK)
title: "No" to prosecuting protesters, UK
uri: No-to-prosecuting-protesters-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(No_to_prosecuting_protesters,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Over 100
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/24/top-lawyers-defy-bar-declare-will-not-prosecute-peaceful-climate-protesters">UK lawyers have signed a pledge</a>
not to prosecute peaceful climate protesters.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Iraq_invasion_fallout)
title: Iraq invasion fallout
uri: Iraq-invasion-fallout
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Iraq_invasion_fallout)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/13/long-shadow-of-us-invasion-of-iraq-still-looms-over-international-order">An analysis of the events unleashed</a>
by Dubya's conquest of Iraq, which
have caused misery and trouble just about everywhere.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Plutocracy_in_the_US)
title: Plutocracy in the US
uri: 2023-03-29-Plutocracy-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_March_2023_(Plutocracy_in_the_US)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich connects billionaires including Peter Thiel with
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-arrest-banking-crisis">the bank
bailout and with right-wing extremist</a>
politicians.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Julian Assange charges dropped
uri: Urgent-Julian-Assange-charges-dropped
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Urgent:_Julian_Assange_charges_dropped)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Urgent:_Julian_Assange_charges_dropped)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and ask per to sign on
to Rashida Tlaib's letter to Merrick Garland calling for
dropping charges against Julian Assange.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(anti_racism_guise_spsp)
title: Demonstrating Our Commitment to Anti-Racism Through Programming and Events
uri: Demonstrating-Our-Commitment-to-Anti-Racism-Through-Programming-and-Ev
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(anti_racism_guise_spsp)
content:
 
<p>
The Society for 
<a href="https://spsp.org/">Personality and Social Psychology</a>
<p>
states in its home page that it is an academic scientific society
that aims to advance a field of science.
<p>
However, that has changed.  The organization has taken up 
<a href="https://spsp.org/events/demonstrating-our-commitment-anti-racism-through-programming-and-events">anti-racism</a>
<p>
so intensely that campaigning against racism is its primary purpose
and research is secondary.
<p>
It is proper for any organization to try to avoid racism in its
activities.  It is proper for any organization for research about
human beings to try to study a variety of groups of humans, because
not all humans are alike.  In particular, not all societies are alike,
and in any one society people with different roles may be
systematically different.
<p>
However, the SPSP seems to have decided that every research project is
supposed to campaign against racism, and research which doesn't do
that is not worth publishing.
<p>
That is going too far, because it means that the ostensible purpose of
the organization is now of minor importance.
<p>
I could support an organization whose sole purpose is to campaign
against racism &mdash; depending on what methods it uses to do so.  But we
should not convert a scientific organization into a political
campaign.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(ohio_train_derailment)
title: I live near the East Palestine chemical spill. Officials who say we’re safe are lying
uri: I-live-near-the-East-Palestine-chemical-spill-Officials-who-say-we
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(ohio_train_derailment)
content:
 
<p>
*I live near the East Palestine chemical spill. Officials who say 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/27/ohio-train-derailment-chemicals-health">we’re safe
are lying.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(labor_greens_climate_deal)
uri: It-s-not-perfect-but-the-Labor-Greens-climate-deal-should-limit-emi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(labor_greens_climate_deal)
title:
 It’s not perfect, but the Labor-Greens climate deal should limit emissions and fossil fuels. That matters 

content:
 
<p>
The Australian Labor and Green parties have made a disappointing
compromise which will allow some new fossil fuel developments but
could cap total fossil fuel extraction and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/27/its-not-perfect-but-the-labor-greens-climate-deal-should-limit-emissions-and-fossil-fuels-that-matters">total gross greenhouse
emissions.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(barrier_troops_stop_retreating)
title: Russian soldiers say commanders used ‘barrier troops’ to stop them retreating
uri: Russian-soldiers-say-commanders-used-barrier-troops-to-stop-them
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(barrier_troops_stop_retreating)
content:
 
<p>
An elite Putin forces unit, made up of Russian veterans of the 2014
invasion of Ukraine, suffered great losses and tried to retreat.
Other units of the Putin forces were ordered to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/27/russian-soldiers-commanders-used-barrier-troops-stop-retreating">threaten to kill them.</a>
<p>
They made a video to denounce this treatment.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(netanyahu_israeli_judiciary)
title: Does Netanyahu Have an Exit Strategy
uri: Does-Netanyahu-Have-an-Exit-Strategy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(netanyahu_israeli_judiciary)
content:
 
<p>
Netanyahu is desperate to subject the Israeli judiciary to his power
so that it cannot convict him of corruption.  The army won't stand for
that change, and the defense minister (a former general) called on
Netanyahu to compromise.  Instead he fired the minister.  Meanwhile,
100,000 protesters came out and pole-wielding thugs 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/netanyahu-judical-reform-protests">attacked them on
horseback.</a>
<p>
A general strike has 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/27/middleeast/israel-judicial-overhaul-protests-intl/index.html">been announced.</a>
<p>
I've predicted this confrontation for many years.  Ultra-orthodox Jews
have special privileges which they use to increase their numbers, and
they have joined with the extreme right-wing.  That increase, across
the decades, has brought the right-wing to a position where control of
the state is in the balance.  Even if the supporters of democracy win
this time, the demographic trand will sooner or later deliver victory
to the right-wing.
<p>
The only path I see for its survival is for the democratic Jews and
the Palestinians to unite to support liberal democracy.  But I don't
see how there could be enough trust between them for that to happen.
Maybe Uri Avnery could have united them if he lived, but it would have
been a tall order even for him.
<p>
If Israel's democracy falls, many Israeli Jews will have to search for
countries to move to where they can be safe from repression.

<p>
 


title: Review of the pandemic protocols used
uri: Review-of-the-pandemic-protocols-used
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Review_of_the_pandemic_protocols_used)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Review_of_the_pandemic_protocols_used)

content:
 
<p>
Which approaches for limiting Covid-19 did work, at the beginning, and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/23/covid-britain-locked-down-three-years-trauma">which did not</a>?

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Legalized leaving a child alone
uri: Urgent-Legalized-leaving-a-child-alone
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Urgent:_Legalized_leaving_a_child_alone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Urgent:_Legalized_leaving_a_child_alone)

content:
 
<p>
In Connecticut: support the campaign to
<a href="https://www.freerangekids.com/librarian-tells-mom-she-broke-the-law-by-letting-son-browse-for-6-minutes-unattended/">legalize leaving a child alone</a>
even for minutes in public places such as the public library.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Starbucks_workers'_timely_activism)
title: Starbucks workers' timely activism
uri: Starbucks-workers-timely-activism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Starbucks_workers'_timely_activism)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/22/starbucks-workers-over-100-us-stores-walk-out-shareholder-meeting-unions">Workers at 100 Starbucks stores walked out</a>
ahead of the company's annual meeting.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Smarter,_more_fair_credit_reporting)
title: Smarter, more fair credit reporting
uri: Smarter-more-fair-credit-reporting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Smarter,_more_fair_credit_reporting)
content:
 
<p>
Rep. Tlaib has proposed a law to remove debts incurred for medically
necessary treatments
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/medical-debt-credit-report">from people's credit reports</a>.
<p>
It would be a change for the better, but a very small one.  What Americans
need is a national medical system funded by the government, rather than
a little less hassle when they are forced to borrow the money.
<p>
Rep. Tlaib supports that too.  So why propose this bill?  She must be
hoping that some Republicans will support it, and allow it to pass.
But is there really any chance they will do so?

<p>
 


title: Banking regulations, a conflict of interest
uri: Banking-regulations-a-conflict-of-interest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Banking_regulations,_a_conflict_of_interest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Banking_regulations,_a_conflict_of_interest)

content:
 
<p>
Bernie Sanders proposes to ban some bank executives from serving on
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-bank-executives-federal-reserve">regional federal reserve boards</a>,
since those regulate the banks those
people are executives of.
<p>
I support this.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Labour_policy_self-defeating,_UK)
title: Labour policy self-defeating, UK
uri: Labour-policy-self-defeating-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Labour_policy_self-defeating,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/23/labour-tells-19-leicester-councillors-they-cannot-stand-in-may-election">Starmer's policy of vetoing candidates</a>
applies to local councils as
well as <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_March_2023_(Ideal_candidate_blocked,_UK)">the UK parliament</a>.  This has caused a major rebellion in a
city where almost half of the current Labour councillors were vetoed.
  Several of them are going to run again outside the Labour Party.
<p>
I surmise that the vetoed candidates were more leftist.

<p>
 


title: A review the pandemic protocols used
uri: A-review-the-pandemic-protocols-used
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(A_review_the_pandemic_protocols_used)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(A_review_the_pandemic_protocols_used)

content:
 
<p>
Which approaches for limiting Covid-19 did work, at the beginning, and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/23/covid-britain-locked-down-three-years-trauma">which did not</a>?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(A_source_of_PFAs_in_wastewater:_TP)
title: Source of PFAs in wastewater: TP
uri: Source-of-PFAs-in-wastewater-TP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(A_source_of_PFAs_in_wastewater:_TP)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/13/toxic-forever-chemicals-pfas-toilet-paper">Toilet paper contains PFAs</a>,
and since sewage treatment does not break it down, it gets into waterways and sewage sludge.

<p>
 


title: Today's inflation, banking, interest rates
uri: Today-s-inflation-banking-interest-rates
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Today's_inflation,_banking,_interest_rates)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(Today's_inflation,_banking,_interest_rates)

content:
 
<p>
*Why We (Still) Need a
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/federal-reserve-that-serves-people">Federal Reserve for the People</a>
&mdash; Not [for] Wall Street.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(The_social_outcomes_of_finance)
title: The social outcomes of finance
uri: The-social-outcomes-of-finance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#29_March_2023_(The_social_outcomes_of_finance)
content:
 
<p>
On many measures of how people live, including life expectancy, the US
is not exemplary, and it is because it imposes poverty on more people,
and worse, than
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/deadly-impacts-of-economic-inequality">other developed countries</a>.
<p>
To truly make America great again, tax the rich and lift everyone out
of poverty.
<p>
Prejudice against disprivileged groups "weathers them" and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/17/weathering-by-arline-geronimus-review-how-discrimination-makes-you-sick">causes
them to die younger</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(big_oil_money_universities)
title: Exxon in the classroom: how big oil money influences US universities
uri: Exxon-in-the-classroom-how-big-oil-money-influences-US-universities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(big_oil_money_universities)
content:
 
<p>
*How Big Oil money influences 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/mar/27/fossil-fuel-firms-us-universities-colonize-academia">US universities.*</a>
<p>
Universities even sometimes let Big Oil employees teach the university's classes.

<p>
 


title: As the Met reclassifies Russian art as Ukrainian, not everyone is convinced
uri: As-the-Met-reclassifies-Russian-art-as-Ukrainian-not-everyone-is-conv
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(metropolitan_musem_russian_art_ukrainian)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(metropolitan_musem_russian_art_ukrainian)

content:
 
<p>
It is misguided to rush to relabel art from the Russian Empire or the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/19/metropolitan-museum-art-reclassifies-russian-art-ukrainian">Soviet Union as "Ukrainian".</a>
<p>
Given the information in the article, it would be more accurate to
<Em>describe</Em> that Degas painting as showing a dancer in Ukrainian dress;
but if Degas gave it a <Em>title</Em>, or (as it seems) said somewhere what
he thought he had depicted, we should respect that.  Being French, he
may not have been aware of the difference, and it is anachronistic to
make it seem that he did.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(biden_ai_medicare_advantage)
title: Biden Urged to Crack Down on 'Terrifying' Use of AI by Medicare Advantage Insurers
uri: Biden-Urged-to-Crack-Down-on-Terrifying-Use-of-AI-by-Medicare-Advant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(biden_ai_medicare_advantage)
content:
 
<p>
Medicare Advantage insurance companies are using secret algorithms to choose
a time to refuse to keep paying for a treatment.  Patients and their lawyers
are not given the supposed reasons for the decision so they have 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-ai-medicare-advantage">no
easy way to challenge it.</a>
<p>
The article calls these algorithms "AI".  What that means is not clear
&mdash; I expect it is mere machine learning, but it might perhaps be a
system that draws confusions for reasons.  Either way, the details of
how the algorithm operates are not important.  The crucial point is
that they are secret.
<p>
Some countries have considered laws to forbid the use of secret
algorithms to make decisions about how a person will be treated &mdash; and
not only in medicine.  I think the US should adopt such a law.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(ministers_rowdy_airbnb_guests)
title: Landlords to get power to evict antisocial tenants with two weeks’ notice
uri: Landlords-to-get-power-to-evict-antisocial-tenants-with-two-weeks-n
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(ministers_rowdy_airbnb_guests)
content:
 
<p>
The UK plans to evict tenants 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/27/ministers-to-crack-down-on-short-term-lets-over-rowdy-airbnb-guests">who use recreational drugs.</a>
  Nominally the law will require all rental agreements to permit the landlord
to do so &mdash; but this would not make sense on its own.  I suspect there will
be a system to punish landlords who don't evict.  This way, the state can
punish people and hide behind the landlord.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(richard_boyle_trial)
title: ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle faces trial after immunity defense fails
uri: ATO-whistleblower-Richard-Boyle-faces-trial-after-immunity-defense-fai
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(richard_boyle_trial)
content:
 
<p>
An Australian who worked for the tax authority informed the public about
how that agency was using harsh measures to collect unpaid taxes.
Now he faces trial for this, despite 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/27/ato-whistleblower-richard-boyle-face-trial-after-immunity-defence-fails">Australia's law meant to protect
whistleblowers.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(inequality_birth_benefits)
title: Inequality starts before birth – so child benefits should too
uri: Inequality-starts-before-birth-so-child-benefits-should-too
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(inequality_birth_benefits)
content:
 
<p>
Extra aid during the late stages of pregnancy improves the baby's
health at birth, and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/28/inequality-starts-before-birth-child-benefits-pregnant-women">that leads to a better life.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(starmer_corbyn_blocked)
title: Corbyn gives strong hint he will stand against Labour as independent
uri: Corbyn-gives-strong-hint-he-will-stand-against-Labour-as-independent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(starmer_corbyn_blocked)
content:
 
<p>
Starmer has finalized the rejection of Corbyn as a Labour 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/28/starmer-accused-of-behaving-like-putin-as-corbyn-blocked-from-standing-for-labour">candidate for
Parliament.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(greenland_ice_sheet_melting)
title: Greenland Ice Sheet Very Close to Melting Point of No Return, Scientists Say
uri: Greenland-Ice-Sheet-Very-Close-to-Melting-Point-of-No-Return-Scientis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(greenland_ice_sheet_melting)
content:
 
<p>
*Greenland Ice Sheet Very Close to Melting Point of 
<a href="https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geophysics/greenland-ice-sheet-melting-11784.html">No Return, Scientists Say.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(twitter_modi)
title: *Twitter Widens Its Censorship of Modi's Critics.*
uri: Twitter-Widens-Its-Censorship-of-Modi-s-Critics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(twitter_modi)
content:
 
<p>
*Twitter Widens Its Censorship of 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/03/28/twitter-modi-india-punjab-amritpal-singh/"> Modi's Critics.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(israel_protests_netanyahu)
title: Israel's judicial overhaul delayed after mass protests and strikes
uri: Israel-s-judicial-overhaul-delayed-after-mass-protests-and-strikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(israel_protests_netanyahu)
content:
 
<p>
Netanyahu says he has backed down on ending the 
<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-protests-netanyahu-updates-03-27-23-intl/h_21fccd6e3e2ec2a32dc7a06f571c95cf">independence of the
judiciary.</a>
<p>
He is slippery, though, so he might bring it back in another form.
<p>
This is not the only odious right-wing policy change he has agreed to.
Others include big expansions of the colonization of Palestinian
territory.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(putin_russia_forever_war)
title: Putin prepares Russia for ‘forever war’ with west as Ukraine invasion stalls
uri: Putin-prepares-Russia-for-forever-war-with-west-as-Ukraine-invas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(putin_russia_forever_war)
content:
 
<p>
Putin's propaganda, together with cutting off Russians from outside
news and thought, is successfully convincing them to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/28/putin-prepares-russia-for-forever-war-with-west-as-ukraine-invasion-stalls">identify with the
war.</a>
<p>
I read elsewhere that the families whose youths were conscripted and
then died in the war have mostly convinced themselves that this had to
be somehow laudable, because they can't bear to think the thought that
it was pointless destruction.
<p>
This is good news for fascist rulers around the world, and bad news for
human freedom.

<p>
 


title: To Crush Unions, Starbucks Targets Employee Communications
uri: To-Crush-Unions-Starbucks-Targets-Employee-Communications
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(starbucks_employee_communications_unions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(starbucks_employee_communications_unions)

content:
 
<p>
The US government sued Starbucks for union busting.  Starbucks is
using that lawsuit to subpoena communications between employees, so
it can find out which ones support the 
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/r/07e8f579?m=a1296444-4385-46f7-b56f-c5acabd34844">union &mdash; and punish them.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(french_student_protests_macron)
title: Students’ role in French protests shows depth of anger towards Macron
uri: Students-role-in-French-protests-shows-depth-of-anger-towards-Macro
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(french_student_protests_macron)
content:
 
<p>
French students have joined the protests against Macron's increase in
the retirement age, and especially about his bypassing the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/28/french-student-protests-anti-macron-anger-pensions">National
Assembly to do it.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(donziger_supreme_court)
title: 'Huge Blow to the Rule of Law,' Donziger Says of Supreme Court Decision on Chevron Case
uri: Huge-Blow-to-the-Rule-of-Law-Donziger-Says-of-Supreme-Court-Decisio
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(donziger_supreme_court)
content:
 
<p>
The Supreme Court refused to hear Stephen Donziger's appeal
of the highly irregular procedure by which 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/donziger-supreme-court">Chevron procured
his conviction.</a>
<p>
Surprisingly, the only two justices who wanted to hear the case were
Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.  All the others were willing to let Chevron get
away with railroading Donziger.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(ruby_bridges_anti_racism_film)
title: Florida school pulls anti-racism film Ruby Bridges after parent complaint
uri: Florida-school-pulls-anti-racism-film-Ruby-Bridges-after-parent-compla
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#30_March_2023_(ruby_bridges_anti_racism_film)
content:
 
<p>
The vagueness of DeMentis's censorship of course discussions of racism
is causing disputes about showing students 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/28/ruby-bridges-florida-school-anti-racism-film-parent-complaint">anything about the subject.</a>
<p>
Given any presentation about racism, people can contrive a way to
conceive of it as teaching something bad.  For instance, Ruby Bridges
is about a black child who needed guards to protect her from racists
in her school, back in the 1960s.  That is meant to teach students the
same age today what racism was like; but how can you <Em>prove</Em> it isn't
teaching that all whites are evil?

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Federal contractor Maximus, employment practices
uri: Urgent-Federal-contractor-Maximus-employment-practices
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Urgent:_Federal_contractor_labor_practices_of_Maximus)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Urgent:_Federal_contractor_labor_practices_of_Maximus)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the Biden Administration to
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-the-biden-administration-investigate-racial-inequity-at-maximus?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-this-level-of-racial-inequity-is-inexcusable">investigate racial
inequity</a>
at Maximus, a federal call center contractor.
<p>The White House comments lines are 
<a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.</p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Silicon_Valley_Bank_bailout)
title: Silicon Valley Bank bailout
uri: Silicon-Valley-Bank-bailout
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Silicon_Valley_Bank_bailout)
content:
 
<p>

Supposedly the US government refused to bail out the investors owner of Silicon
Valley Bank &mdash; but it seems to have <a href="https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2023/03/oops-how-the-fdic-guaranteed-the-deposits-of-svb-financial-group.html">done precisely that</a>.  The owner
was a holding company that had deposited money in Silicon Valley Bank.
By deciding to bail out all depositors, the US decided to bail out the
investors.

 


title: Tory members representing foreign company's interests
uri: Tory-members-representing-foreign-company-s-interests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Tory_members_representing_foreign_company's_interests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Tory_members_representing_foreign_company's_interests)

content:
 
<p>

  Tory members of the UK parliament, who were former ministers, agreed to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/25/top-tory-mps-ask-for-10000-a-day-to-work-for-fake-korean-company">represent a foreign company's interests for large sums of money</a> &mdash; as much as 10,000 
UKP per day.  The company was a hoax and their assent was recorded.
<p>
For legislators to take pay to serve private interests is corruption
and it ought to be a crime.  The most shocking thing to me is that in
the UK this is lawful.  The UK has rules for it, and those elected
representatives followed the rules.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Biden_chooses_fossil_fuels)
title: Biden chooses fossil fuels
uri: Biden-chooses-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Biden_chooses_fossil_fuels)
content:
 
<p>

  *Biden <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/biden-willow-project-climate-youth">Chooses Fossil Fuels</a> Over Us.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(EPA_failure_on_dioxins)
title: EPA failure on dioxins
uri: EPA-failure-on-dioxins
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(EPA_failure_on_dioxins)
content:
 
<p>

The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/17/norfolk-southern-derailment-east-palestine-ohio-carcinogenic-chemical-levels">failed for years to upgrade an old standard for safe
    concentration of dioxins</a>.
  Because of this, Norfolk Southern may be allowed to leave dangerous
levels of dioxins at the site of the derailment in Ohio.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Sites_snoop_for_TikTok)
title: Sites snoop for TikTok
uri: Sites-snoop-for-TikTok
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Sites_snoop_for_TikTok)
content:
 
<p>

Lots of web sites <a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/privacy/tiktok-tracks-you-across-the-web-even-if-you-dont-use-app-a4383537813/">snoop on their visitors for TikTok</a> by containing its
"tracking pixels", just as sites do for Google or Facebook.
<p>
The browser IceCat blocks these tracking pixels, but it ought to be a
crime for a web site to try to use them.

 


title: (satire) AI could leave shred of humanity intact
uri: (satire)-AI-could-leave-shred-of-humanity-intact
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_((satire)_AI_could_leave_shred_of_humanity_intact)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_((satire)_AI_could_leave_shred_of_humanity_intact)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/investors-worried-ai-could-leave-shred-of-humanity-inta-1850257921">*Investors Worried AI Could Leave Shred Of Humanity Intact.*</a>
<p>
What they are talking about is neural network systems, not artificial
intelligence properly speaking.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Antibiotic-resistant_bacteria)
title: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria
uri: 2023-04-01-Antibiotic-resistant-bacteria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Antibiotic-resistant_bacteria)
content:
 
<p>

The antibiotic-resistant bacteria bred by feeding antibiotics to farm animals
are consumed by humans when meat is not cooked sufficiently.  Then they
can get into the bladder and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/23/health/uti-bacteria-infection-wellness/index.html">cause urinary tract infections</a>.

 


title: (satire) Catholic High School Newsletter
uri: (satire)-Catholic-High-School-Newsletter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_((satire)_Catholic_High_School_Newsletter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_((satire)_Catholic_High_School_Newsletter)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/catholic-high-school-newsletter-has-updates-on-which-al-1850218796">*Catholic High School Newsletter Has Updates On Which Alumni
    Are In Hell Now.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Shortage_of_fresh_water)
title: Shortage of fresh water
uri: 2023-04-01-Shortage-of-fresh-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Shortage_of_fresh_water)
content:
 
<p>

The urbanized world is facing a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/22/world/global-water-crisis-un-report-climate-intl/index.html">gradually developing crisis of shortage
    of fresh water</a>.
<p>
*Urban water demand is expected to increase by 80% by 2050.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(German_demand_on_EU_directive)
title: German demand on EU directive
uri: German-demand-on-EU-directive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(German_demand_on_EU_directive)
content:
 
<p>

A <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> party in the German government <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/cars/eu-combustion-engine-debate-climate-intl/index.html">demanded a change in
    the nearly-agreed EU directive</a> to ban sale of new cars made to use
fossil fuels after 2035.
<p>
Supposedly this is to encourage the future sale of new cars intended
to run on hypothetical future "synthetic fuels" made from CO2
extracted from the air.  However, the proposed directive was already
written to permit that the continued sale of such those cars after
2035, provided they could not run on fossil fuels.  It is clear that
the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> demand aims to create an excuse in 2035 to continue
selling new cars that <em>can</em> run on fossil fuels.  The excuse will be
to claim that these new cars are <em>intended</em> to run on synthetic fuels.
<p>
Why is that important to them?  Based on the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters'</a> record
of repeated dishonesty, I speculate their plan is to claim that cars
are "intended" to run on the synthetic fuels, knowing that owners will
actually buy the fossil fuels instead, and that this will create
increased demand for fossil fuels, such that it is impossible to
discontinue them as planned.
<p>
It looks like the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a> won: the EU <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/27/eu-ministers-to-approve-vehicle-emissions-law-after-deal-with-germany">made the
    demanded seemingly-small change</a> in the directive.

 


title: Redesigning cities to cope with increase in rain
uri: Redesigning-cities-to-cope-with-increase-in-rain
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Redesigning_cities_to_cope_with_increase_in_rain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Redesigning_cities_to_cope_with_increase_in_rain)

content:
 
<p>

  Assorted ideas for <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/26/world/flooding-cities-water-design-climate-intl/index.html">redesigning cities</a> to cope with the increasing
intensity of rain that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> is now causing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Federal_reserve_protecting_banks)
title: Federal reserve protecting banks
uri: Federal-reserve-protecting-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Federal_reserve_protecting_banks)
content:
 
<p>

  The Federal Reserve <a href="https://www.levernews.com/lever-weekly-banks-say-let-them-eat-interest-rate-hikes/?attribution_id=641e7ce37a9de2003d307ab1&attribution_type=post">protects banks from interest rate increases</a>,
while workers get crushed.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Minors_searched_by_thugs_in_the_UK)
title: Minors searched by thugs in the UK
uri: Minors-searched-by-thugs-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Minors_searched_by_thugs_in_the_UK)
content:
 
<p>

When minors in the UK are searched by <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>, black minors are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/26/race-disparity-police-strip-searches-of-children-england-and-wales">far more
    likely to be strip-searched</a> than white minors.
<p>
The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> violate the official rules meant to protect minor from
psychological trauma about half the time.
<p>
The article says "children", but I expect that means "minors" and that
most of the people searched are teenagers.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Human_population_peak_prediction)
title: Human population peak prediction
uri: Human-population-peak-prediction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Human_population_peak_prediction)
content:
 
<p>

A new method of modeling predicts that the world human population
will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/27/world-population-bomb-may-never-go-off-as-feared-finds-study">peak at 8.8 billion before 2050</a>, and then decline to 7.8 billion
by the end of the century.
<p>
This will help avoid disaster, but doesn't assure avoiding it.  If
more people avoid reproducing in this decade, it will make the next
decade easier to get through without disaster and facilitate lower use
of fossil fuels.

 


title: Success of psychological crises intervention
uri: Success-of-psychological-crises-intervention
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Success_of_psychological_crises_intervention)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(Success_of_psychological_crises_intervention)

content:
 
<p>

Some city departments to send unarmed people with intervention
training to respond to psychological crises are effective, while
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/27/new-mexico-police-mental-health-crises-intervention-programs">others are not</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(rainbowland_ban_wisconsin)
title: Wisconsin school district bans Miley Cyrus-Dolly Parton duet with ‘rainbow’ in title
uri: Wisconsin-school-district-bans-Miley-Cyrus-Dolly-Parton-duet-with-r
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(rainbowland_ban_wisconsin)
content:
 
<p>
Right-wing fanatics in Wisconsin ordered a first-grade class not to
sing the 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/entertainment/rainbowland-ban-miley-cyrus-dolly-parton-wisconsin-cec/index.html">song Rainbow land.</a>
<p>
The song's words advocate tolerance instead of hate in a very general way,
but the word "rainbow" was more than the censors could stand for.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(military_service_women_abortion)
title: Opinion: The cruel twist that harms women in the military
uri: Opinion-The-cruel-twist-that-harms-women-in-the-military
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(military_service_women_abortion)
content:
 
<p>
The Pentagon should include, in its planning for where to put military bases,
the predictable extra cost of putting the base in a 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/opinions/military-service-women-abortion-access-bennet/index.html">state which prohibits
abortion.</a>
<p>
I'd go further.  I'd suggest a policy of actively restationing units
and activities from abortion-restricting states to abortion-tolerant
states, with a goal of moving moving nearly all to the latter
in 10 years.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(chips_act)
title: The CHIPS Act: What it means for the semiconductor ecosystem
uri: The-CHIPS-Act-What-it-means-for-the-semiconductor-ecosystem
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(chips_act)
content:
 
<p>
The CHIPS act is intended to discourage US semiconductor companies
from outsourcing of chip manufacturing to hostile countries such as
China.  A look at the details of how it is supposed to achieve this
shows the weakness and timidity of the US government in 
<a href="https://www.pwc.com/us/en/library/chips-act.html">dealing with
any sort of big business.</a>
<p>
The US government hasn't got the gumption to prohibit US companies
from doing things that put the nation in danger, or even to penalize
them to discourage doing so.  The best it can manage is to offer
subsidies if they avoid those actions.
<p>
For this reason and many others, making America great again starts
with slapping down the businesses that think they own it.
<p>
Here's the 
<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/09/fact-sheet-chips-and-science-act-will-lower-costs-create-jobs-strengthen-supply-chains-and-counter-china/">White House statement lauding the law.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(oil_company_damage)
title: What the Oil Companies Really Knew, Part 2
uri: What-the-Oil-Companies-Really-Knew-Part-2
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(oil_company_damage)
content:
 
<p>
Exxon scientists in the 1970s and 1980s presented executives with a
fairly accurate projection of what global heating caused by fossil
fuels might do to the world in a few decades. 
<a href="https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4877">But they presented it
as a possibility;</a>
<p>
with all the gaps in the scientific knowledge of that time, they could
not determine whether those things would really happen.
<p>
By around 2000, the science had resolved the uncertainty and
fossil-fuel executives could not honestly deny the damage they were
going to cause.

<p>
 


uri: (satire)-Prisoner-Given-10-Extra-Years-For-Good-Behavior-To-Serve-As-R
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_((satire)_prisoner_given_10_extra_years)

title:
 (satire) Prisoner Given 10 Extra Years For Good Behavior To Serve As Role Model For Fellow Inmates 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_((satire)_prisoner_given_10_extra_years)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Prisoner Given 10 Extra Years For Good Behavior To 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/prisoner-given-10-extra-years-for-good-behavior-to-serv-1850238588">Serve As
Role Model For Fellow Inmates.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(carter_sabotage_iran)
title: Republicans tried to delay release of US hostages to sabotage Carter, ex-aide claims – report
uri: Republicans-tried-to-delay-release-of-US-hostages-to-sabotage-Carter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(carter_sabotage_iran)
content:
 
<p>
Former Texas governor Connally talked with Middle Eastern leaders in
1980 trying to convince Iran to hold on to the US embassy hostages, so
that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/20/jimmy-carter-republican-sabotage-iran-hostage-john-connally">Reagan would win the 1980 election.</a>
<p>
This is according to Ben Barnes, who worked for him and accompanied him
on the trip.
<p>
Officials of various countries have affirmed, over the years, that Reagan
made a deal with Khomeini to refuse to free the 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/03/24/october-surprise-ben-barnes/">US embassy hostages
before the 1980 presidential election.</a>
Here is 
<a href="https://www.gregpalast.com/reagans-treason-october-surprise/">Greg Palast's report on Ben Barnes.</a>
<p>
It accuses him of a lot of nastiness, but doesn't answer
the questions it raises: why did Barnes not say this before,
and why does he say it now?  But, it doesn't cast much doubt
on his recent statement.
<p>
As for calling "Dubya" a "draft-dodger". that term should not be used.
I rebuke Dubya for many wrongs, including the crime of starting a war
of aggression against Iraq.  But there is nothing wrong in trying to
escape from being conscripted into an unjust war.
<p>
That includes the Vietnam War, which the US ramped up based on
fabricating the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/09/24/there-no-rehabilitating-vietnam-war">fictitious "incident" in the Gulf of Tonkin.</a>
<p>
And it includes Putin's invasion of Ukraine.  We should support
Russians who are doing whatever it takes to avoid fighting in the
Putin forces.

<p>
 


uri: Business-Interests-Dominate-U-S-Trade-Advisory-System-Gain-Access-to
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(business_interests_trade_advisory_system_secrets)

title:
 Business Interests Dominate U.S. Trade Advisory System, Gain Access to Trade-Pact Texts Kept Secret from Public, New Economic Liberties Research Shows 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(business_interests_trade_advisory_system_secrets)

content:
 
<p>
*Business Interests Dominate U.S. Trade Advisory System, Gain Access
 to Trade-Pact Texts 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/business-interests-dominate-u-s-trade-advisory-system-gain-access-to-trade-pact-texts-kept-secret-from-public-new-economic-liberties-research-shows">Kept Secret from Public.*</a>
<p>
This is perhaps the mechanism that ensures so-called "free trade treaties" are
actually 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business-supremacy treaties.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(rapidly_melting_glaciers)
title: Rapidly Melting Glaciers Threaten Collapse of Crucial Ocean Circulation Systems: Study
uri: Rapidly-Melting-Glaciers-Threaten-Collapse-of-Crucial-Ocean-Circulatio
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(rapidly_melting_glaciers)
content:
 
<p>
Fresh water from rapidly melting Antarctic glaciers goes deep into the
ocean.  There it tends to slow down deep-level currents.  This could
cause 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/melting-ice-ocean-circulation">catastrophic sudden changes in climate.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_()
title: The problem with artificial intelligence? It’s neither artificial nor intelligent
uri: The-problem-with-artificial-intelligence-It-s-neither-artificial-no
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_()
content:
 
<p>
Evgeny Morozov: *The problem with artificial intelligence? It’s not 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/30/artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-human-mind">artificial or intelligent.*</a>
<p>
That is true, about today's neural-network systems.  However,
generalizing that into a prediction of impossibility for all kinds of
technology is likely to be mistaken.  If something isn't impossible
for known reasons, the prediction that it can't be done is likely to
be falsified some day.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(ai_teen_regeneron_science)
uri: Using-artificial-intelligence-and-archival-news-articles-this-teen-fo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(ai_teen_regeneron_science)
title:
 Using artificial intelligence and archival news articles, this teen found that Black homicide victims were less humanized in news coverage 

content:
 
<p>
In news coverage of homicides in the Boston Globe, from 1976 to 1984,
stories where the victim was black were less likely to use language
that would encourage seeing the victim as a human being than 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/us/artificial-intelligence-teen-regeneron-science-reaj/index.html">stories
about white victims.</a>
<p>
This must reflect racism in some way or other.  I'd be very interested
in whether it is the result of racism of the writers, or some sort of
systemic racism.
<p>
I am puzzled that the article says that this used "artificial
intelligence", but it doesn't say what that is meant to refer to.  I
am dubious that something as complex as reasoning software or machine
learning was needed to categorize the stories.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(guns_corporate_america_nashville)
title: Why Corporate America has grown silent on gun violence
uri: Why-Corporate-America-has-grown-silent-on-gun-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(guns_corporate_america_nashville)
content:
 
<p>
US gun fanatics have won the battle of 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/business/guns-corporate-america-nashville/index.html">competing pressures on US
business,</a>
<p>
They have even passed state laws to boycott banks that
reject gun companies as clients.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(australia_climate_law)
title: Australia passes most significant climate law in a decade amid concern over fossil fuel exports
uri: Australia-passes-most-significant-climate-law-in-a-decade-amid-concern
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(australia_climate_law)
content:
 
<p>
Australia's new climate defense bill requires Australia's total greenhouse
gas emissions to decrease steadily over time.  There are provisions too
to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/30/australia-climate-emissions-reduction-legislation-laws-parliament-labor-greens">limit fossil fuel exports.</a>
<p>
The Green Party pushed hard and improved the deal, thought  it did not get
all it pushed for.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(alexei_moskalyov_daughter_anti_war)
title: Fugitive Russian man whose daughter drew anti-war pictures detained in Belarus
uri: Fugitive-Russian-man-whose-daughter-drew-anti-war-pictures-detained-in
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(alexei_moskalyov_daughter_anti_war)
content:
 
<p>
Alexei Moskalyov's daughter drew anti-war drawings in school.  He was
arrested and sentenced to two years in prison for her drawings, but he
tried to run away. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/30/russian-man-daughter-drew-anti-war-pictures-detained-fleeing">Alas, he has been caught.</a>


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(israel_not_a_democracy)
title: Israel hasn’t been a democracy for a long time. Now, Israelis need to face this fact
uri: Israel-hasn-t-been-a-democracy-for-a-long-time-Now-Israelis-need-t
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(israel_not_a_democracy)
content:
 
<p>
*Israel hasn’t been a democracy for a long time.  Now, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/30/israel-hasnt-been-a-democracy-for-a-long-time-now-israelis-need-to-face-this-fact">Israelis need to
face this fact.*</a>
<p>
Democracy in Israel includes only the Jewish part of the population,
and a split in that part, mostly about how to treat the rest, is
making this partial democracy unstable.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(russia_espionage_gershkovich)
title: Russia arrests Wall Street Journal reporter and accuses him of espionage
uri: Russia-arrests-Wall-Street-Journal-reporter-and-accuses-him-of-espiona
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(russia_espionage_gershkovich)
content:
 
<p>
*Russia arrests Wall Street Journal 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/30/russia-arrests-wall-street-journal-reporter-on-espionage-charges-evan-gershkovich">reporter on espionage charges.*</a>
<p>
There is very little the US can do to stop Russia from using those laws
to arrest reporters who are not spies, but it can at 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/28/media-groups-urge-us-drop-julian-assange-charges">least drop the charges
against Julian Assange</a>
<p>
to stop setting a bad example for other counties.
<p>
Each country should  stop prosecuting journalists for doing journalism.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(uk_net_zero_plan)
title: How could the UK’s net zero plan involve new oil and gas? It’s mind-bogglingly stupid
uri: How-could-the-UK-s-net-zero-plan-involve-new-oil-and-gas-It-s-min
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#31_March_2023_(uk_net_zero_plan)
content:
 
<p>
The UK's "net zero" plan looks like it was designed to go in the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/30/uk-net-zero-plan-new-oil-and-gas-stupid-conservatives-carbon-capture-storage">wrong
direction.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Urgent:_Climate_Emergency)
title: Urgent: Climate Emergency
uri: Urgent-Climate-Emergency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Urgent:_Climate_Emergency)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to
<a href="https://act.350.org/sign/biden-climate-emergency-petition/?source=em20230322-1-30-us&akid=239988%2E1151744%2ElgMC6d">declare a climate emergency now</a>.
This would give him powers he could use effectively without Congress.
<p>The White House comments lines are 
<a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.</p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Urgent:_Neonicotinoids)
title: Urgent: Neonicotinoids
uri: Urgent-Neonicotinoids
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Urgent:_Neonicotinoids)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53288&supporter_KEY=229474&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:117728&utm_campaign=EAC4-FCNS:WILDLIFE:BEES-1222&utm_content=EM9:01C:0HH-CCP">call on Bayer to stop manufacturing neonicotinoids</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Urgent:_Executive_accountability)
title: Urgent: Executive accountability
uri: Urgent-Executive-accountability
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Urgent:_Executive_accountability)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the Biden administration to
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-biden-administration-to-hold-silicon-valley-bank-executives-accountable?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-losing-his-job-isnt-enough">hold Silicon Valley
Bank executives accountable</a>
&mdash; to claw back some of their profits from its failure.
<p>The White House comments lines are 
<a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.</p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Distinguishing misinformation, Finland
uri: Distinguishing-misinformation-Finland
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Distinguishing_misinformation,_Finland)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Distinguishing_misinformation,_Finland)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/21/2159588/-Finland-Prepares-Students-to-Identify-Propaganda-and-Misinformation?_=2023-03-21T22:29:59.000-07:00">Finland's schools</a>
systematically teach how to identify misinformation
and ungrounded accusations of conspiracy.
<p>
I think this would be wise to adopt everywhere.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Data_collection,_principles)
title: Data collection, principles
uri: Data-collection-principles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Data_collection,_principles)
content:
 
<p>
TikTok's
<a href="https://epic.org/tiktok-is-not-the-only-problem/">intense collection of data about each user</a>
is a threat to Americans and to US national security.
  As EPIC points out, TikTok is far from the only such.
<p>
The same is true for many other "social media" platforms, and school
education programs, and other proprietary programs.  If you can't
modify the program to send whatever made-up data you want to send,
instead of true facts about you, it is not safe to use.
<p>
The ADPPA bill that EPIC recommends would reduce the existing massive
internet surveillance, but it starts with the usual mistake: systems
can collect data that is "reasonably necessary and proportionate to
provide or maintain a product or service".  That is 
<a href="/articles/real-privacy-laws.html">too lax and will fail</a>
to protect privacy.
<p>
My article, linked above, provides a key test.  Does the rule prohibit
systems that charge for parking which make every driver enter per
car's license plate number?  That practice is dangerous surveillance;
any law that fails to prohibit it is too weak.
<p>
The ADPPA's stricter rule for children and teenagers should apply to
everyone, but even that could be interpreted in a way that is too weak.
We can be sure companies will press for the weak interpretation.
This requirement must be <em>bulletproof</em>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Restorative_justice)
title: Restorative justice
uri: 2023-04-01-Restorative-justice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Restorative_justice)
content:
 
<p>
Will we open our eyes to the past and its implications, or drown them out
by shouting?
<p>
*The campaign to "protect our [British] history," in other words, is about
protecting the past from historians &mdash; and protecting the present from
dangerous new ideas about how we got here. Because when an organisation
like the Guardian researches its own historical links to transatlantic
slavery &mdash; and then apologises and embarks on a substantial project of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/commentisfree/2023/mar/30/britain-slavery-change-guardian">restorative justice</a>
&mdash; the newspaper is not primarily presenting a
different past, but its ambition for a different present.*
<p>
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.)  I denounce bigotry, and
normally I will not link to articles that promote it.  But I make
exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important,
such as the one linked to above.



<p>
 


title: Urgent: Appoint Kyrsten Sinema ambassador to Italy
uri: Urgent-Appoint-Kyrsten-Sinema-ambassador-to-Italy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Urgent:_Appoint_Kyrsten_Sinema_ambassador_to_Italy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Urgent:_Appoint_Kyrsten_Sinema_ambassador_to_Italy)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-joe-biden-appoint-kyrsten-sinema-ambassador-to-italy">appoint Kyrsten Sinema ambassador to
    Italy</a>.
<p>
The proposal is ironic but I think it is seriously proposed.

 


title: Urgent: Automate marijuana pardon applications
uri: Urgent-Automate-marijuana-pardon-applications
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Urgent:_Automate_marijuana_pardon_applications)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Urgent:_Automate_marijuana_pardon_applications)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Attorney General Garland to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-attorney-general-garland-automate-marijuana-pardon-applications">automate marijuana
    pardon applications</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Reject plan to replace income tax with big sales tax
uri: Urgent-Reject-plan-to-replace-income-tax-with-big-sales-tax
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Urgent:_Reject_plan_to_replace_income_tax_with_big_sales_tax)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Urgent:_Reject_plan_to_replace_income_tax_with_big_sales_tax)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-say-no-to-a-national-30-sales-tax">reject the Republican plan to replace
    income tax with a big sales tax</a>.
<p>
The result of that change would be to tax wealthy people much less and
tax poor people a lot more.  This is what sales taxes always do; we
should get rid of them.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

 


title: Fact-checks on Trump bad for Fox News
uri: Fact-checks-on-Trump-bad-for-Fox-News
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Fact-checks_on_Trump_bad_for_Fox_News)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Fact-checks_on_Trump_bad_for_Fox_News)

content:
 
<p>

*Angry Fox News chief said [in 2020 that] fact-checks of Trump’s
election lies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/29/fox-news-trump-fact-check-election-lies-dominion">"bad for business."</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Murderer_as_aide_to_Rep._Gaetz)
title: Murderer as aide to Rep. Gaetz
uri: Murderer-as-aide-to-Rep-Gaetz
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Murderer_as_aide_to_Rep._Gaetz)
content:
 
<p>

Rep. Gaetz hired a convicted murderer as an aide.  But not just
any murder &mdash; that one <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/03/29/matt-gaetz-aide-war-criminal/">murdered a prisoner of war in Afghanistan</a>.
<p>
I expect that this was no coincidence &mdash; that Gaetz did this to demonstrate
his support for political murder.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Tories'_law_to_punish_refugees)
title: Tories' law to punish refugees
uri: Tories-law-to-punish-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Tories'_law_to_punish_refugees)
content:
 
<p>

The Tories' planned law to punish refugees will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/29/europe-human-rights-watchdog-warns-uk-over-migration-bill">especially punish
    those who have been enslaved and trafficked</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Bullshitter_indicted)
title: Bullshitter indicted
uri: Bullshitter-indicted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Bullshitter_indicted)
content:
 
<p>

  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter</a> has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/30/donald-trump-indicted-stormy-daniels-hush-money">indicted for secret payments to Stormy Daniels</a>.
<p>
I think that paying her, as such, was not a crime.  I think the crime
was using campaign funds for this personal purpose, but I wish that
were made clear.
<p>
Robert Reich <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-is-indicted">rebuts the ways the wrecker will claim that it was unfair
    to indict him</a>.
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/30/what-does-donald-trumps-indictment-say-about-us-democracy">Comparing the US and other democracies</a> in regard to how they treat
criminal accusations against former presidents.

 


title: Trump appointees weaken EPA assessment of PFAs
uri: Trump-appointees-weaken-EPA-assessment-of-PFAs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Trump_appointees_weaken_EPA_assessment_of_PFAs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Trump_appointees_weaken_EPA_assessment_of_PFAs)

content:
 
<p>

  *Trump appointees <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/23/trump-appointees-epa-toxic-chemical-pfas-pfbs-toxic">interfered to weaken EPA assessment</a> of [a type of PFAS].*
<p>
Biden reversed the damage they had done, but they remain in positions
of authority in the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a>.

 


title: Radical replacement of London thug department
uri: Radical-replacement-of-London-thug-department
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Radical_replacement_of_London_thug_department)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_April_2023_(Radical_replacement_of_London_thug_department)

content:
 
<p>

  Calling for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/23/met-police-uk-radical-alternatives-policing">radical replacement of the London thug department</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: NO tax-cut extension for the wealthy
uri: Urgent-NO-tax-cut-extension-for-the-wealthy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_NO_tax-cut_extention_for_the_wealthy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_NO_tax-cut_extention_for_the_wealthy)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress not to extend <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter's</a>
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-oppose-renewing-trumps-tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-afr-advocacy-fund-c4&source=group-afr-advocacy-fund-c4">tax cuts
for the wealthy</a>.
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Cancel pesticide cyantraniliprole
uri: Urgent-Cancel-pesticide-cyantraniliprole
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Urgent:_Cancel_pesticide_cyantraniliprole)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Urgent:_Cancel_pesticide_cyantraniliprole)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> to protect the rusty patched bumblebee
(and many other species) from
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53988&supporter_KEY=229474&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:117961&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:WILDLIFE:BEES-0323&utm_content=EM9:00C:0HH-AAP">the pesticide cyantraniliprole</a>.
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(War_acts_near_nuclear_plant)
title: War acts near nuclear plant
uri: War-acts-near-nuclear-plant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(War_acts_near_nuclear_plant)
content:
 
<p>
*UN nuclear watchdog says fighting near Ukraine power plant is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/29/un-nuclear-watchdog-says-fighting-near-ukraine-power-plant-is-intensifying">"intensifying."</a>*
<p>
Comparing this with Putin's other behavior suggests this is intended
to as something fools can cite in arguments calling for giving Putin a
successful conquest in the name of peace.
<p>
It won't bring peace for long, though.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Fossil_fuels_era_spasms)
title: Fossil fuels era spasms
uri: Fossil-fuels-era-spasms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Fossil_fuels_era_spasms)
content:
 
<p>
The fossil gas industry is trying to use Putin's economic warfare
to get permission to build lots of extraction facilities,
which they will
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/last-winter-of-gas-europe">parlay into an excuse</a>
to keep running them for decades.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Climate_lawsuits_increasing)
title: Climate lawsuits increasing
uri: Climate-lawsuits-increasing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Climate_lawsuits_increasing)
content:
 
<p>
*European Human Rights Court Hears
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-lawsuit">Historic Climate Case</a>
Brought by Elderly Swiss Women.*
<p>
Such lawsuits are increasing.  The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> that has occurred
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#7_September_2019_(Elites_golfing)">already is killing people</a>
today.  But if one of these cases reaches a verdict of "guilty", or if in a
civil suit the plaintiffs win, I don't see what adequate punishment or
remedy a court would be able to impose.  Money damages to be paid by
the state would do little to make things right.  That would require
reducing future emissions, but a court can't decide how to do that.

<p>
 


title: Senate investigation, IRS-dodgers at Credit Suisse
uri: Senate-investigation-IRS-dodgers-at-Credit-Suisse
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Senate_investigation,_IRS-dodgers_at_Credit_Suisse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Senate_investigation,_IRS-dodgers_at_Credit_Suisse)

content:
 
<p>
A US
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/credit-suisse-tax-dodging">Senate investigation reports that Crédit Suisse</a>
has participated
in a "massive, ongoing conspiracy" to help wealthy US citizens dodge
taxes.
<p>
The US citizens in question are quite wealthy; each has deposited more
than $20 million each in Crédit Suisse.

<p>
 


title: Israeli judiciary role: protect military
uri: Israeli-judiciary-role-protect-military
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Israeli_judiciary_role:_protect_military)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Israeli_judiciary_role:_protect_military)

content:
 
<p>
*Protect the Israeli Judiciary &mdash; but Don’t Let It Launder
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/03/29/israel-judiciary-war-crimes-palestine/">War Crimes Against Palestinians</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(An_abortion_for_a_minor_as_a_felony)
title: An abortion for a minor as a felony
uri: An-abortion-for-a-minor-as-a-felony
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(An_abortion_for_a_minor_as_a_felony)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/idaho-abortion-trafficking">Idaho Republicans plan</a>
to make it a felony to "procure an abortion"for a minor.
<p>
This would clearly be wrong and harmful.  Just how much harm it will
do, I am not sure; it depends on precisely what it means to "procure
an abortion", which is not clear here.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Carbon_offset_strategy_reforms)
title: Carbon offset strategy reforms
uri: Carbon-offset-strategy-reforms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Carbon_offset_strategy_reforms)
content:
 
<p>
*[New] Quality standards [proposed] to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/30/quality-standards-hold-carbon-offsetting-industry-account">hold carbon offsetting industry
 to account</a>.*
<p>
Both the sellers of offsets and the buyers have a monetary interest in
undermining the goal, and they have found plenty of ways to do so.
This initiative is meant to prevent that, but they will keep trying,
and I think they will find new ways to undermine it.
<p>
That is why I advocate greenhouse
<a href="/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_January_2022_(Carbon_offsetting)">emission taxes</a> 
rather than a marketfor trading quotas.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Green_Day_in_UK_is_black)
title: "Green Day" in UK a bleak black
uri: Green-Day-in-UK-a-bleak-black
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Green_Day_in_UK_is_black)
content:
 
<p>
Tories have converted the UK's planned "green day" at last minute into
a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/29/uk-green-day-fossil-fuel-dirty-money-sunak-renewables">fossil fuel bonanza</a>.
 *Dirty money powers the [Tory] government.*

 


title: Urgent: NO tax-cut extension for the wealthy
uri: 2023-04-03-Urgent-NO-tax-cut-extension-for-the-wealthy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Urgent:_NO_tax-cut_extention_for_the_wealthy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_April_2023_(Urgent:_NO_tax-cut_extention_for_the_wealthy)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress not to extend <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter's</a>
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-oppose-renewing-trumps-tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-afr-advocacy-fund-c4&source=group-afr-advocacy-fund-c4">tax cuts
for the wealthy</a>.
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Medical_safety_net_unravelling)
title: Medical safety net unraveling
uri: Medical-safety-net-unraveling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Medical_safety_net_unravelling)
content:
 
<p>
*15 Million People [in the US] Could Lose [medical] Coverage as
Nightmarish
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/medicaid-purge-begins">Medicaid 'Purge'</a>
Begins.*
<p>
It
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/01/politics/medicaid-termination-states/index.html">starts with five states</a>
suffering under Republican rule.




<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Israeli_Palestinian_realignments)
title: Israeli Palestinian realignments
uri: Israeli-Palestinian-realignments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Israeli_Palestinian_realignments)
content:
 
<p>
Formerly interhostile Palestinian factions in the West Bank are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/08/boundaries-between-west-bank-factions-blur-as-resistance-to-israeli-occupation-grows">joining to fight Israelis</a>;
the two sides regularly kill each other.
<p>
The article describes repeated Israeli attacks as "in response to"
repeated Palestinian attacks.  That asymmetry seems arbitrary: this
looks like a cycle in which each attack inspires an attack by the
other side.  Each side is constantly retaliating for what the other
side is constantly doing, and vice versa.
<p>
If Israel had protected Palestinians who were not violent, and
respected their rights at least somewhat, the Palestinian Authority
could have validly said it was providing benefits to the Palestinians.
But Israel did not do enough to restrain its fanatics, so the
Palestinian Authority could not gain anything by recognizing Israel's
authority.
<p>
I suspect that the fanatical Israeli annexationists aim to whip up
all-out war, figuring that they can make that an opportunity for
<a href="/archives/2009-jan-apr.html#22 February 2009 (Netanyahu/Lieberman coalition)">ethnic cleansing, as Uri Avnery said was their goal</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_Support_SNAP)
title: Urgent: Support SNAP
uri: Urgent-Support-SNAP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_Support_SNAP)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose cutting SNAP,
which provides food benefits to poor people.
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_ropeless-harvested_lobster)
title: Urgent: ropeless-harvested lobster
uri: Urgent-ropeless-harvested-lobster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_ropeless-harvested_lobster)
content:
 
<p>
Everyone: call on Red Lobster to
<a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53704&supporter_KEY=229474&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:117994&utm_campaign=EAC4-FCNS:WILDLIFE-0123&utm_content=EM9:01C:0HH-DCP">buy only lobsters caught with
ropeless methods</a>.
<p>
This is to avoid injuring whales.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_Teacher_salary_increase)
title: Urgent: Teacher salary increase
uri: Urgent-Teacher-salary-increase
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_Teacher_salary_increase)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/pay-teachers-act/?t=1001&akid=30548%2E96703%2EWqpkA-">pass the Pay the Teachers Act</a>,
which would increase the salary of public school teachers.
<p>
The page you get after signing may appear blank.  If so, stripping
or disabling the CSS in the page could make the text visible.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: reject TAP American Energy Act
uri: Urgent-reject-TAP-American-Energy-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_reject_TAP_American_Energy_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_reject_TAP_American_Energy_Act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=54045&supporter_KEY=229474&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:118055&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:DRILLING:OILGAS-0323&utm_content=EM9:00C:0HH-LLP">reject the TAP American Energy Act</a>,
which would mandate more drilling in the seas, and more coal mining on land.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_No_war_on_drugs)
title: Urgent: No war on drugs
uri: Urgent-No-war-on-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_No_war_on_drugs)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/no-war-with-mexico?akid=8754.223515.g9tKRS&c0=no-war-with-mexico.veoQji&rd=1&source=em20230329&t=1006">vote against authorizing war with Mexico</a>.
<p>
Although the "war on drugs" is only a metaphor, the actual policies it
stands for cause many deaths.  Extending it into a real war would make it even worse.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_Disqualify_the_bully)
title: Urgent: Disqualify the bully
uri: Urgent-Disqualify-the-bully
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_Disqualify_the_bully)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to disqualify <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> from running for federal office,
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-disqualify-trump-from-running-for-public-office?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progress-america&source=direct_link">on
the grounds of his call for violence if he is arrested</a>.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Global medical reproductive treatment
uri: Urgent-Global-medical-reproductive-treatment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_Global_medical_reproductive_treatment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Urgent:_Global_medical_reproductive_treatment)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to legalize using US foreign aid funds
for abortions":
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/show-up-for-global-reproductive-rights-tell-congress-pass-the-abortion-is-healthcare-everywhere-act?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-just-strategy&source=group-just-strategy">pass the Abortion is Healthcare Everywhere Act</a>.
<p>
I object to using the marketing term "health care" to refer to medical
treatment, but that's a secondary issue, but not important enough to
outweigh my support for this.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Baby_legality,_Italy)
title: Baby legality, Italy
uri: Baby-legality-Italy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Baby_legality,_Italy)
content:
 
<p>
Italy's right-wing government is attacking same-sex couples by
persecuting their children &mdash;
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/31/meps-condemn-italy-move-stop-registering-children-same-sex-parents">refusing to register them as citizens</a>.
That is likely to cause them many problems throughout their lives.
<p>
IVF should not be allowed for anyone.  There is nothing immoral about
it, but we still need to curb the human population.  If you want to
raise a child but cannot biologically make one, what you should do, to
help civilization survive, is to adopt an already-living child &mdash; not
arrange for an additional child to be born for you.
<p>
That may change some day.  If we get down to only one billion human
beings, and there is no danger of further <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>, perhaps then
we should encourage people to have somewhat more children so as to
stabilize the population.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Language_as_identity,_Russia)
title: Language as identity, Russia
uri: Language-as-identity-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Language_as_identity,_Russia)
content:
 
<p>
Renowned Russian writer
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/02/russian-writer-mikhail-shishkin-letter-ukrainian-invasion-anniversary-my-russia-war-peace">Mikhail Shishkin condemns Putin</a>
for staining the Russian language with the blood of Ukrainians.
<p>
Shishkin talks about
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/02/mikhail-shishkin-my-russia-war-or-peace-interview-letter">the situation of Russia</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Abortion_illegalization_strategy,_ID)
title: Abortion illegalization strategy, ID
uri: Abortion-illegalization-strategy-ID
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Abortion_illegalization_strategy,_ID)
content:
 
<p>
The planned Idaho law prohibiting helping a minor travel to get an abortion
is
<a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/idaho-abortion-trafficking-bill-opens-pandoras-box-of-questions-for-wa/">designed cunningly to interfere</a>
with the activities of people outside Idaho.
<p>
In addition, it is designed to harass people even for activities which
it says are still lawful.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Broken_windows_policing,_UK)
title: Broken windows policing, UK
uri: Broken-windows-policing-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Broken_windows_policing,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
The Tories are pushing laws to set up an exaggerated version of
"<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/01/crackdown-antisocial-behaviour-puts-us-mercy-curtain-twitchers">broken windows policing</a>."
 When <a href="/archives/2015-may-aug.html#13_June_2015_(NY_thugs'_broken_scheme)">the US tried that</a>, it did no significant good but lots of harm.
  Sad to say, the US has not entirely dropped that approach; <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>
love it, since it gives them an opportunity to go to town on rather
helpless "criminals."
<p>
The Tory version will be exaggerated to penalize minor nuisances.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Trying_the_bullshitter)
title: Trying the bullshitter
uri: Trying-the-bullshitter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Trying_the_bullshitter)
content:
 
<p>
The main crime <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a> is
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-triviality-banality-of-evil">now charged</a>
with
  is paying hush money on behalf of a political campaign.
<p>
The secondary crime is misrepresenting the purpose of that payment, on
a tax return.

<p>
 


title: Corporations' unsportsmanlike conduct
uri: Corporations-unsportsmanlike-conduct
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Corporations'_unsportsmanlike_conduct)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Corporations'_unsportsmanlike_conduct)

content:
 
<p>
Ralph Nader: *One measure of corporate power’s dominance is its 24/7
<a href="https://mailchi.mp/nader/boomerang-big-business-style-c1b1z5196a?e=555e9be067">relentless, profit-driven capacity to strike back</a>
and prevail over
reforms or other efforts designed to give the people voice and
fairness.*
<p>
<em>Some</em> of his examples support one simple lesson:<br>
Never try "help" businesses do something we would want them to do
by giving them more money to do it with.
<p>
There are more good lessons to be learned.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Wrongs_of_papal_decrees)
title: Wrongs of papal decrees
uri: Wrongs-of-papal-decrees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Wrongs_of_papal_decrees)
content:
 
<p>
The Vatican has denounced its "doctrine of discovery" which it
used to give
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/doctrine-of-discovery">a religious justification to colonization</a>.
<p>
In the 1400s and 1500s, European monarchs were seriously afraid they
would go to Hell if they started unjust wars.  For instance, the king
of Spain really really wanted to attack England, but waited years for
a religiously valid excuse for dispatching the armada.
<p>
It is foolish to demand that the Vatican make substantive changes in
the situation of indigenous people today, because it doesn't have any
power nowadays.  All it can do is give advice &mdash; which can be good or
bad.
<p>
It is a good thing that a Vatican decision "doesn't change the law in
any country."  If the Vatican could do that, the first change it would
make is to prohibit abortion.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Brexit,_its_Pacific_partners)
title: Brexit, its Pacific partners
uri: Brexit-its-Pacific-partners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_April_2023_(Brexit,_its_Pacific_partners)
content:
 
<p>
The Tories are entering Britain in the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#tpp">TPP</a> (Trance Pacific Partnership),
under a slightly changed name but with the same
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/31/pacific-trade-deal-brexit-britain-food-standards-economic-benefit">subjection to business</a>.
<p>
The Tories said they wanted the UK to leave the EU so as to decide its
own laws, but what they really wanted was to augment plutocracy &mdash; to
give international business more power than the EU permits it to have.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to tax billionaires
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-tax-billionaires
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_tax_billionaires)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_tax_billionaires)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/sign-petition-tell-congress-tax-billionaires/">tax billionaires</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Climate defense action with dispatch
uri: Urgent-Climate-defense-action-with-dispatch
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Urgent:_Climate_defense_action_with_dispatch)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Urgent:_Climate_defense_action_with_dispatch)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/ads_ms_ll_202303-ea-progam-listr-unreport-q2-em001">take climate defense action with
    dispatch</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Protect Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
uri: Urgent-Protect-Consumer-Financial-Protection-Bureau
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to do everything in its power to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protect_cfpb_funding_scotus/">protect
    the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Bill to prohibit assault rifles
uri: Urgent-Bill-to-prohibit-assault-rifles
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Urgent:_Bill_to_prohibit_assault_rifles)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Urgent:_Bill_to_prohibit_assault_rifles)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and call on per to sign the
discharge petition for the bill to prohibit assault rifles.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

 


title: Urgent: Corrupter is not above the law
uri: Urgent-Corrupter-is-not-above-the-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Urgent:_Corrupter_is_not_above_the_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Urgent:_Corrupter_is_not_above_the_law)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/add-your-name-donald-trump-is-not-above-the-law/">Insist that the corrupter is not above the law</a>.

 


title: Making it hard to remove prime minister
uri: Making-it-hard-to-remove-prime-minister
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Making_it_hard_to_remove_prime_minister)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Making_it_hard_to_remove_prime_minister)

content:
 
<p>

Netanyahu gained extra protection from his corruption charges with a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/23/middleeast/israel-judicial-reforms-prime-minister-law-intl/index.html">law
    making it harder to remove a prime minister from office</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Texas_school_censorship)
title: Texas school censorship
uri: Texas-school-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Texas_school_censorship)
content:
 
<p>

  A US court ruled that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/01/us/texas-book-ban-removed-library-replaced-judge/index.html">Texas school censorship is unconstitutional</a>.
The books removed from school libraries must be brought back to them.
<p>
A few years ago I would have taken this result for granted, and so
would the advocates of censorship &mdash; they would not have tried it.
Now they hope that the right-wing extremists on the court will make up
an excuse to permit this &mdash; and they may be right.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Mob_attacks_at_rally_in_Jerusalem)
title: Mob attacks at rally in Jerusalem
uri: Mob-attacks-at-rally-in-Jerusalem
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Mob_attacks_at_rally_in_Jerusalem)
content:
 
<p>

Right-wing fanatics, supporters of parties in Israel's government,
held a rally in Jerusalem and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/01/middleeast/israel-right-wing-protesters-attack-intl/index.html">launched mob attacks</a> on a TV journalist,
and on a Palestinian taxi driver.
<p>
They beat up the journalist, who was hospitalized.  The taxi driver
was rescued by Israeli cops, who often don't try to protect a
Palestinian, but the fanatics destroyed his car.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(UK_thug_department_reputations)
title: UK thug department reputations
uri: UK-thug-department-reputations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(UK_thug_department_reputations)
content:
 
<p>

  UK <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> departments <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/25/police-england-wales-deleting-outcomes-misconduct-hearings">spruce up their reputations</a> by deleting from their
web sites the reports of wrongdoing by <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.
  This includes reports of grave crimes such as rape.

 


title: Starbucks fires worker that founded union campaign
uri: Starbucks-fires-worker-that-founded-union-campaign
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Starbucks_fires_worker_that_founded_union_campaign)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Starbucks_fires_worker_that_founded_union_campaign)

content:
 
<p>

  *Starbucks <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/03/starbucks-fires-buffalo-union-organizer-lexi-rizzo">fires Buffalo worker</a> who founded union campaign.*
<p>
The laws that enforce workers' rights are weak.
If the individuals who participate in violating them were sent to prison,
corporations would not find to get anyone to do this.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(UK's_new_voter_ID_card)
title: UK's new voter ID card
uri: UK-s-new-voter-ID-card
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(UK's_new_voter_ID_card)
content:
 
<p>

Confirmation that the UK's new voter ID card serves no purpose except
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/03/voter-photo-id-plan-attacked-as-uk-data-shows-no-cases-of-impersonation">making it hard for poor people to vote</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Agriculture_quasi-monopolies)
title: Agriculture quasi-monopolies
uri: Agriculture-quasi-monopolies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Agriculture_quasi-monopolies)
content:
 
<p>

Bernie Sanders calls for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/why-are-egg-prices-so-high">breaking up the giant agriculture
    quasi-monopolies</a>.
<p>
I agree, but I think something like my <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/progressive-tax-on-business-gross-income.html">proposed progressive
    income tax for corporations</a>
would be easier and more efficient than suing them one by one.

 


title: TPP and UK plans for greenhouse gas emissions
uri: TPP-and-UK-plans-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(TPP_and_UK_plans_for_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(TPP_and_UK_plans_for_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

content:
 
<p>

  Joining the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#tpp">TPP</a> would <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/03/pacific-trade-deal-make-mockery-uk-climate-ambitions-cptpp">ruin the UK's plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions</a>.
<p>
  Other <a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business-supremacy treaties</a> are already making it hard to reduce
emissions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(For_a_good_time,_watch)
title: For a good time, watch
uri: For-a-good-time-watch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(For_a_good_time,_watch)
content:
 
<p>

  For a good time, watch <a href="https://invidio.us/watch?v=ues8ycOxXKM">https://invidio.us/watch?v=ues8ycOxXKM</a>

 


title: Mount of Olives next target for Israeli annexationists
uri: Mount-of-Olives-next-target-for-Israeli-annexationists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Mount_of_Olives_next_target_for_Israeli_annexationists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Mount_of_Olives_next_target_for_Israeli_annexationists)

content:
 
<p>

Israeli annexationists have been finding excuses for years to expel
Palestinians from old Jerusalem, neighborhood by neighborhood.  The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/03/mount-of-olives-jerusalem-israeli-settler-movement-palestinians-christian-holy-city">next target is the Mount of Olives</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Money_to_help_children_grow_up_well)
title: Money to help children grow up well
uri: Money-to-help-children-grow-up-well
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Money_to_help_children_grow_up_well)
content:
 
<p>

  It is foolish and stingy for societies to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/03/early-years-support-parents">refuse to spend money</a> to
help each child grow up well.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Sentencing_in_secret_trials)
title: Sentencing in secret trials
uri: Sentencing-in-secret-trials
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Sentencing_in_secret_trials)
content:
 
<p>
I've read about two people <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/apr/04/sentencing-details-in-secret-witness-j-trial-may-be-kept-hidden-for-20-years-court-told">convicted and sentenced anonymously in Australia</a> for
crimes that the government refuses to describe.
<p>
It seems almost Stalinist.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Norwegian_salmon_farming_tax)
title: Norwegian salmon farming tax
uri: Norwegian-salmon-farming-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Norwegian_salmon_farming_tax)
content:
 
<p>
Norway is raising the tax rate on salmon farming so that the companies will
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/04/salmon-tax-norway-aquaculture-marine-environment-share-benefits-seas">have to share the profits</a> with people that live in coastal regions.
<p>
Those quoted as objecting to the tax increase base their arguments
implicitly on the trickle-down theory of economics.  The owners would like
us to believe that if we let them get richer, they will share it with us.
But when the time comes to do that, they always argue for postponing it.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Protect old-growth and mature trees on federal land
uri: Urgent-Protect-old-growth-and-mature-trees-on-federal-land
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_old-growth_and_mature_trees_on_federal_land)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_old-growth_and_mature_trees_on_federal_land)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=54015">protect old-growth and mature trees on
federal lands</a>.
They absorb more carbon than the smaller young trees.
<p>
To see the confirmation of your signature, you need to strip all the
CSS from it.  Icecat has a command in the right-click menus to do
that.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Tornadoes_in_the_US_southeast)
title: Tornadoes in the US southeast
uri: Tornadoes-in-the-US-southeast
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Tornadoes_in_the_US_southeast)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> is <a href="Global heating is expanding the territory were tornadoes usually strike.">expanding the territory</a> were tornadoes usually strike.
The expansion is into the US southeast.

<p>
 


title: Internet of Stings enabling domestic abusers
uri: Internet-of-Stings-enabling-domestic-abusers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Internet_of_Stings_enabling_domestic_abusers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Internet_of_Stings_enabling_domestic_abusers)

content:
 
<p>
"Smart" devices are designed to enable companies to abuse people, but
it turns out <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/04/smart-tech-domestic-abusers-women">domestic abusers take advantage of them too</a>.
<p>
Even if your present and former lovers don't mistreat you through the
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#internetofstings">Internet of Stings</a>, those companies will eagerly do so.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(People_furthering_the_climate_crisis)
title: People furthering the climate crisis
uri: People-furthering-the-climate-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(People_furthering_the_climate_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
*New York Governor Hochul (D) is pushing to <a href="https://www.levernews.com/r/c3c9652e?m=a1296444-4385-46f7-b56f-c5acabd34844">gut the state.s signature
climate law</a> after raking in nearly half a million dollars from the
corporations and lobbyists pushing the move.*
<p>
*UAE plans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/04/revealed-uae-plans-huge-oil-and-gas-expansion-as-it-hosts-un-climate-summit">huge oil and gas expansion</a> as it hosts UN climate summit.*

<p>
 


title: Stress and danger causes physical illness
uri: Stress-and-danger-causes-physical-illness
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Stress_and_danger_causes_physical_illness)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Stress_and_danger_causes_physical_illness)

content:
 
<p>
The stress and danger of being in a demographic that is a target for
prejudice <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/04/extraordinarily-stressed-and-vigilant-how-racism-makes-people-physically-ill">tends to make people get old fast</a>.
<p>
I presume that those demographics tend to have trouble getting a good
night's sleep.  It now appears that they <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/04/sleep-lower-asthma-risk">predisposes people to asthma</a>.

<p>
 


title: CEOs "tired of pushing for gun control"
uri: CEOs-tired-of-pushing-for-gun-control
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(CEOs_tired_of_pushing_for_gun_control)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(CEOs_tired_of_pushing_for_gun_control)

content:
 
<p>
CEOs of big businesses are tired of pushing for gun control,
especially since <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/03/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html">Republicans don't heed them</a>.  Reportedly they don't
know what else they can do at the moment.
<p>
How about this: stop supporting the campaigns of right-wing candidates?
That won't take much time, and it will save them money.
<p>
Of course, we know why they don't do this.

 


title: Urgent: Make federal agencies account for climate
uri: Urgent-Make-federal-agencies-account-for-climate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Urgent:_Make_federal_agencies_account_for_climate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_April_2023_(Urgent:_Make_federal_agencies_account_for_climate)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to use executive power to <a href="https://act.evergreenaction.com/letter/tell-biden-you-have-power-to-account-for-climate/">make federal agencies
    fully account</a> for climate the effects of their decisions.

 


title: Urgent: Drop charges against Julian Assange
uri: 2023-04-07-Urgent-Drop-charges-against-Julian-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Urgent:_Drop_charges_against_Julian_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Urgent:_Drop_charges_against_Julian_Assange)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and your senators
to urge them to sign Rashida Tlaib's letter calling for dropping
charges against Julian Assange.
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/03/30/julian-assange-congress-rashida-tlaib/">This page</a>
includes the text of the letter.
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Climate_rating_of_JBS)
title: Climate rating of JBS
uri: Climate-rating-of-JBS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Climate_rating_of_JBS)
content:
 
<p>
Companies get graded on greenhouse emissions, and deforestation, based
on figures that they supply.  JBS, the giant meat processing company,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/30/brazilian-meatpackers-a--sustainability-rating-raises-grade-inflation-concerns">amazed environmentalists</a>
by getting a grade of A&minus.
They say it must be altering the figures.

<p>
 


title: Technicality threatens medical coverage
uri: Technicality-threatens-medical-coverage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Technicality_threatens_medical_coverage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Technicality_threatens_medical_coverage)

content:
 
<p>
A court ruling could
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/aca-preventative-care-ruling">eliminate preventive medical care for millions</a>
of Americans.
<p>
The lawsuit was filed by religious fanatics who object to paying for
drugs to prevent transmission of HIV.  Those drugs, over time, can
wipe out HIV, but extremist Christians think that the deity they
worship intended HIV to make homosexuals suffer and we humans should
not interfere.
<p>
The decision was based on the perverse idea that they have a
constitutional right not to pay for insurance coverage of treatments
that violate their religion.
<p>
I don't think that they object to cancer screening as such.  I think
those are the collateral damage caused by a desire to punish people
for having sex.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Thug_smuggler,_CA)
title: Thug smuggler, CA
uri: Thug-smuggler-CA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Thug_smuggler,_CA)
content:
 
<p>
The leader of a thug union in California has been charged with
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/30/california-police-union-executive-charged-importing-opioids">smuggling fentanyl</a>.
<p>
The "war on drugs" <a href="/archives/2012-sep-dec#02_November_2012_(Legalization_of_marijuana_in_US_states)">promotes corruption of every sort of official who
    participates in it</a>
.  That is just one of the many reasons to get the
war off drugs.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Helpful_executive_action,_Biden)
title: Helpful executive action, Biden
uri: Helpful-executive-action-Biden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Helpful_executive_action,_Biden)
content:
 
<p>
The Congressional Progressive Caucus recommends a long
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/cpc-executive-action-agenda">list of
executive actions that Biden could take</a>
to help poor and disprivileged
Americans, and restrain the powerful rich from doing some kinds of harm.


<p>
 


title: Global heating, national security threat, AU
uri: Global-heating-national-security-threat-AU
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Global_heating,_national_security_threat,_AU)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Global_heating,_national_security_threat,_AU)

content:
 
<p>
Australia's government got a secret report explaining how
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/05/former-adf-chief-calls-for-release-of-secret-report-into-security-threat-posed-by-climate-crisis">global
heating is a bigger threat to Australia's national security</a>
 than any possible foreign enemy.
<p>
It should publish this report.
  


<p>
 


title: Urgent: Drop charges against Julian Assange
uri: 2023-04-07-Urgent-Drop-charges-against-Julian-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_April_2023_(Urgent:_Drop_charges_against_Julian_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_April_2023_(Urgent:_Drop_charges_against_Julian_Assange)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and your senators
to urge them to sign Rashida Tlaib's letter calling for dropping
charges against Julian Assange.
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/03/30/julian-assange-congress-rashida-tlaib/">This page</a>
includes the text of the letter.
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Technicality threatens medical coverage
uri: 2023-04-07-Technicality-threatens-medical-coverage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_April_2023_(Technicality_threatens_medical_coverage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_April_2023_(Technicality_threatens_medical_coverage)

content:
 
<p>
A court ruling could
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/aca-preventative-care-ruling">eliminate preventive medical care for millions</a>
of Americans.
<p>
The lawsuit was filed by religious fanatics who object to paying for
drugs to prevent transmission of HIV.  Those drugs, over time, can
wipe out HIV, but extremist Christians think that the deity they
worship intended HIV to make homosexuals suffer and we humans should
not interfere.
<p>
The decision was based on the perverse idea that they have a
constitutional right not to pay for insurance coverage of treatments
that violate their religion.
<p>
I don't think that they object to cancer screening as such.  I think
those are the collateral damage caused by a desire to punish people
for having sex.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_April_2023_(Thug_smuggler,_CA)
title: Thug smuggler, CA
uri: 2023-04-07-Thug-smuggler-CA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_April_2023_(Thug_smuggler,_CA)
content:
 
<p>
The leader of a <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> union in California has been charged with
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/30/california-police-union-executive-charged-importing-opioids">smuggling fentanyl</a>.
<p>
The "war on drugs" <a href="/archives/2012-sep-dec#02_November_2012_(Legalization_of_marijuana_in_US_states)">promotes corruption of every sort of official who
    participates in it</a>
.  That is just one of the many reasons to get the
war off drugs.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_April_2023_(Helpful_executive_action,_Biden)
title: Helpful executive action, Biden
uri: 2023-04-07-Helpful-executive-action-Biden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_April_2023_(Helpful_executive_action,_Biden)
content:
 
<p>
The Congressional Progressive Caucus recommends a long
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/cpc-executive-action-agenda">list of
executive actions that Biden could take</a>
to help poor and disprivileged
Americans, and restrain the powerful rich from doing some kinds of harm.

<p>
 


title: Global heating, national security threat, AU
uri: 2023-04-07-Global-heating-national-security-threat-AU
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_April_2023_(Global_heating,_national_security_threat,_AU)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_April_2023_(Global_heating,_national_security_threat,_AU)

content:
 
<p>
Australia's government got a secret report explaining how
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/05/former-adf-chief-calls-for-release-of-secret-report-into-security-threat-posed-by-climate-crisis">global
heating is a bigger threat to Australia's national security</a>
 than any possible foreign enemy.
<p>
It should publish this report.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Nursing homes and private equity
uri: Urgent-Nursing-homes-and-private-equity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Urgent:_Nursing_homes_and_private_equity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Urgent:_Nursing_homes_and_private_equity)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the US Dept of Health to demand additional
financial disclosure about
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/take-action-protect-nursing-homes-from-wall-street-greed?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-take-action-protect-nursing-homes-from-private-equity-greed-3">nursing homes owned by private equity</a>.
<p>
Here is an idea: make all fines for failure to follow standards of
care proportional to the total gross sales of the company responsible?
These private equity giants would split themselves up on the double to
avoid such big fines.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(TikTok_aggression)
title: TikTok aggression
uri: TikTok-aggression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(TikTok_aggression)
content:
 
<p>
TikTok's algorithm recognizes a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/04/how-tiktoks-algorithm-exploits-the-vulnerability-of-children">user's points of vulnerability</a>
as opportunities to get per hooked.
<p>
The article focuses on people of age 13, on the border between
childhood and adolescence.  But I doubt that that algorithm treats
older users any better.  Why would it?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(public_finance_for_fossil_fuels)
title: Biggest public financing for fossil fuels
uri: Biggest-public-financing-for-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(public_finance_for_fossil_fuels)
content:
 
<p>
The OECD, an organization mostly of developed countries which
administers economic aid, has agreed on criteria for
"climate-friendly" projects which are
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/oecd-fossil-based-technologies-climate-friendly">vulnerable to distortion</a>.
<p>
For instance, hydrogen for intermediate storage of energy avoids
greenhouse gas emissions <em>if</em> the hydrogen is made by electrolysis of
water using 100% renewable electricity.  If "clean hydrogen or
ammonia" is strictly defined that way, it would be a reasonable
policy.  But planet roasters' playbook is to <a href="#12_March_2023_(Lobbying_to_weaken_EU_campaign_to_reduce_fossil_fuels)">try to stretch that
    policy</a>
to include hydrogen made from fossil fuels.
<p>
Unless the policy is made firm and robust enough to prevent that,
they will twist it so that it speeds destruction.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Best_public_V_fossil_fuels)
title: Protesting fossil-fueling, NY
uri: Protesting-fossil-fueling-NY
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Best_public_V_fossil_fuels)
content:
 
<p>
Public pressure convinced Governor Hochul to drop her plan to change
New York law to permit
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/hochul-new-york-climate-methane">greater amounts of methane</a>
emissions.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Climate_emergency_and_coal_power)
title: Climate emergency and coal power
uri: Climate-emergency-and-coal-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Climate_emergency_and_coal_power)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/06/coal-power-phaseout-far-to-slow-climate-chaos-china-global">Phaseout of coal power far too slow</a>
to avoid "climate chaos", report finds.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(New_pun:_the_poet_diversifies)
title: New pun: the poet diversifies
uri: New-pun-the-poet-diversifies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(New_pun:_the_poet_diversifies)
content:
 
<p>
    New pun:
  <blockquote>
    Q: Why did the poet start writing elegies?<br/>
    A: Because he was given advice to die-versify.
  </blockquote>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: This Julian Assange rally, Boston
uri: Urgent-This-Julian-Assange-rally-Boston
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_April_2023_(Urgent:_This_Julian_Assange_rally,_Boston)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_April_2023_(Urgent:_This_Julian_Assange_rally,_Boston)

content:
 
<p>
This Julian Assange rally will be April 17, 11:30-1:00 at the
Government Center in front of the JFK Building, where our
senators have their offices.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: This Julian Assange rally, Boston
uri: 2023-04-08-Urgent-This-Julian-Assange-rally-Boston
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Urgent:_This_Julian_Assange_rally,_Boston)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Urgent:_This_Julian_Assange_rally,_Boston)

content:
 
<p>
This Julian Assange rally will be April 17, 11:30-1:00 at the
Government Center in front of the JFK Building, where our
senators have their offices.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: File federal charges against the wrecker
uri: Urgent-File-federal-charges-against-the-wrecker
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Urgent:_File_federal_charges_against_the_wrecker)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Urgent:_File_federal_charges_against_the_wrecker)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-doj-file-federal-charges-against-trump?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-re-take-action-with-trump-indicted-in-manhattan-its-time-for-the-doj-to-act">call on the DOJ to file federal charges</a>
against <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Pollution_controls)
title: Pollution controls, EPA status
uri: Pollution-controls-EPA-status
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Pollution_controls)
content:
 
<p>
The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> will tighten limits for toxic
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-epa-mercury-rule">pollution from power plants</a>.
<p>
Similar measures for particulate emissions are needed
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/05/experts-call-for-stricter-air-pollution-targets-to-tackle-dementia-risk">to avoid
provoking dementia</a>.
<p>
Pollution activists call on the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> to enforce
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/groups-renew-call-to-end-federal-amnesty-for-factory-farm-air-polluters">air quality standards
on factory farms</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Daycare_child-play_turned_serious)
title: Daycare child-play turned serious
uri: Daycare-child-play-turned-serious
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Daycare_child-play_turned_serious)
content:
 
<p>
*Two Colorado
<a href="https://www.freerangekids.com/preschoolers-prank-leads-to-day-care-employees-trial/">child care workers will go on trial</a>
this June for presiding over a day care center where a 5-year-old pulled down a 3-year-old's pants. Twice.*

<p>
 


title: Violent restrictions, al-Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem
uri: Violent-restrictions-al-Aqsa-mosque-Jerusalem
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Violent_restrictions,_al-Aqsa_mosque,_Jerusalem)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Violent_restrictions,_al-Aqsa_mosque,_Jerusalem)

content:
 
<p>
Israeli <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> attacked Muslims in al-Aqsa mosque again.  This time the
only violence came from the thugs.  They hit dozens with sticks, then arrested hundreds, with
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-attacks-al-aqsa-mosque-ramadan-2023">no visible excuse</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Memory's_unreliable_perceptions)
title: Memory's unreliable perceptions
uri: Memory-s-unreliable-perceptions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Memory's_unreliable_perceptions)
content:
 
<p>
Humans can develop erroneous memories
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/05/short-term-memory-illusions-study">in a few seconds</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Ice_sheets,_potential_collapse_rate)
title: Ice sheets, potential collapse rate
uri: Ice-sheets-potential-collapse-rate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Ice_sheets,_potential_collapse_rate)
content:
 
<p>
*Ice sheets can
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/05/ice-sheets-collapse-far-faster-than-feared-study-climate-crisis">collapse at 600 metres a day</a>.*
  This occurred in Antarctica at the end of the last ice age.
<p>
This means that sea level could rise catastrophically in mere decades.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Reacting_to_the_bully's_arrest)
title: Reacting to the bully's arrest
uri: Reacting-to-the-bully-s-arrest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Reacting_to_the_bully's_arrest)
content:
 
<p>
*[Right-wingers] see the law as a weapon, to be held by the in-group,
pointed at the out-group, which is to say they are tribalists
passionately committed to inequality. They find the idea of the
out-group pointing the law at the in-group outrageous and
upsetting. Thus their meltdown over an alleged criminal being
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/05/trump-had-always-been-above-the-law-until-it-turned-on-him">charged
with and arrested for his alleged crimes</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Putin's_personal_behavior)
title: Putin's personal behavior
uri: Putin-s-personal-behavior
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_April_2023_(Putin's_personal_behavior)
content:
 
<p>
A defector says that Putin meets hardly anyone in person, does not use
the internet, and doesn't even have an assistant who uses it, so his
information about
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/05/russian-defector-sheds-light-on-putin-paranoia-including-secret-train">reality is quite limited and filtered</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Urgent:_Reject_the_RESTRICT_act)
title: Urgent: Reject the RESTRICT act
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-RESTRICT-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Urgent:_Reject_the_RESTRICT_act)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators and call on them
to <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/broad-vague-restrict-act-dangerous-substitute-comprehensive-data-privacy">reject the RESTRICT act</a>, which would allow the US government to ban
arbitrarily the accessing of non-US web sites.
<p>
I see nothing about TikTok that would excuse its existence, but we should
ban sites for disrespecting privacy, not for being under the control of China.
<p>
Please do not use the EFF's recommendations. for how to contact your
Congressional officials.  That method depends on running nonfree
software, The only ways of doing that which don't treat you unjustly
are (1) phoning and (2) sending snail mail.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Urgent:_Increase_the_estate_tax)
title: Urgent: Increase the estate tax
uri: Urgent-Increase-the-estate-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Urgent:_Increase_the_estate_tax)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say to increase the estate
tax, and stop the use of trusts to bypass that tax.  Millionaires'
families should not be allowed to accumulate growing fortunes across
generations.
<p>
Then phone your senators and make the same point.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Education_in_Puerto_Rico)
title: Education in Puerto Rico
uri: Education-in-Puerto-Rico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Education_in_Puerto_Rico)
content:
 
<p>

The series of disasters in Puerto Rico &mdash; Hurricanes interspersed with
Covid-19 &mdash; have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/05/puerto-rico-school-system-federal-government">ruined education</a>, leaving most students years behind
their grade.
<p>
  These disasters have combined with the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#22_January_2022_(Puerto_Rico_debt)">crushing debt burden</a>
  exacerbated by the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-sep-dec.html#8_November_2018_(Puerto_Rico_to_pay_too_much_to_creditors)">nondemocratic fiscal controls</a> imposed by Congress
  which are designed to pay the debts at no matter what cost to Puerto
Ricans.  This is driving people to migrate to various US states where
they have somewhat more rights (whatever Republicans do not take
away).  Education is another motive to migrate.  Even in a state with
lousy public schools, they are better than Puerto Rico's schools.
<p>
The more people migrate, the greater the debt burden per person
remaining.  Eventually, I expect, this will force everyone to leave,
and the land will be sold to corporations.

 


title: Young Poles being driven from Catholicism
uri: Young-Poles-being-driven-from-Catholicism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Young_Poles_being_driven_from_Catholicism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Young_Poles_being_driven_from_Catholicism)

content:
 
<p>

Right-wing politics under the auspices of the Catholic Church is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/05/catholic-church-poland-law-and-justice-party-young-voters">driving
    young Poles away from Catholicism</a>.

 


title: Global banks investing in US gas exports
uri: Global-banks-investing-in-US-gas-exports
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Global_banks_investing_in_US_gas_exports)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Global_banks_investing_in_US_gas_exports)

content:
 
<p>

*Global banks pledged to cut emissions &mdash; but still <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/05/banks-emissions-natural-gas-oil-projects-climate-crisis">invest billions on US gas
    exports</a>.*

 


title: Prohibition on leavened bread during Passover
uri: Prohibition-on-leavened-bread-during-Passover
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Prohibition_on_leavened_bread_during_Passover)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Prohibition_on_leavened_bread_during_Passover)

content:
 
<p>

Israeli religious fanatics have imposed by law a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/05/israeli-hospitals-scramble-to-comply-with-chametz-law-for-passover">prohibition on
    bringing leavened bread</a> into hospitals during Passover.
<p>
Religious fanatics seek above all to impose their religion's
obsessions on everyone.  The amount of trouble those obsessions cause
varies greatly.  Banning bread for a week is rather mild as these
things go.  Shutting down public transport on Saturday, which the same
group achieved some decades ago, is worse, but still minor compared
to the ban on abortion that some Christian and Muslim fanatics impose.
<p>
However, giving religious believers the power to impose their
obsessions on everyone is harmful in itself, independent of the
specific obsessions they choose.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Decline_of_the_west)
title: Decline of the west
uri: Decline-of-the-west
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Decline_of_the_west)
content:
 
<p>

*Politicians are right about the ‘decline of the west’ &mdash; but so wrong about
the causes. The problem is not moral decay. It’s the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/05/decline-of-the-west-causes-moral-decay-living-standards">withering away of our living
    standards, security and wellbeing</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(DeMentis'_censorship_ban)
title: DeMentis' censorship ban
uri: DeMentis-censorship-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(DeMentis'_censorship_ban)
content:
 
<p>

*Democrats bid to use [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis'</a>] censorship law against [him] and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/05/democrats-ron-desantis-censorship-law-book-ban">ban his book</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Atlantic_mackerel)
title: Atlantic mackerel
uri: 2023-04-10-Atlantic-mackerel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Atlantic_mackerel)
content:
 
<p>

Atlantic mackerel was considered a "sustainable fishery", but it seems
that was not actually so &mdash; fish stocks are declining, which implies
it fishing for them <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/05/mackerel-loses-sustainable-status-as-overfishing-puts-species-at-risk">isn't really sustainable</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Oilfield_in_North_Sea)
title: Oilfield in North Sea
uri: Oilfield-in-North-Sea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Oilfield_in_North_Sea)
content:
 
<p>

  *New oilfield in the North Sea would <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/01/new-oilfield-in-the-north-sea-would-blow-the-uks-carbon-budget">blow the UK’s carbon budget</a>.*
<p>
Like the "Willow project" in the US, it shows a government that is
letting Big Oil pull the world to disaster.  But this one shows how
the presupposition that "carbon capture and storage" will cancel
out the carbon emissions is being used to excuse going further
out on the limb.

 


title: Facial recognition in New York schools
uri: Facial-recognition-in-New-York-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Facial_recognition_in_New_York_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Facial_recognition_in_New_York_schools)

content:
 
<p>

New York State banned facial recognition in schools,
but schools <a href="https://www.nysfocus.com/2023/03/28/facial-recognition-schools-new-york/">install systems that can do facial recognition
    and other things</a>, and use that as an excuse to bypass the law.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Republicans_citing_parental_rights)
title: Republicans citing "parental rights"
uri: Republicans-citing-parental-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Republicans_citing_parental_rights)
content:
 
<p>

  Republicans have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/opinions/whose-parents-rights-trump-desantis-gop-ziegler-cahn/index.html">cited "parental rights"</a> since the 1950s to oppose
social changes such as racial integration.
<p>
  *<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/04/06/idaho-abortion-travel-ban-minors/">Idaho’s Abortion Travel Ban</a> Shows Dangers of GOP’s “Parental Rights” Agenda.*

 


title: Expensive gifts received by Justice Thomas
uri: Expensive-gifts-received-by-Justice-Thomas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Expensive_gifts_received_by_Justice_Thomas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Expensive_gifts_received_by_Justice_Thomas)

content:
 
<p>

Justice Thomas received many expensive gifts from a billionaire
over a period of decades, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/06/clarence-thomas-supreme-courts-gifts-republican-megadonor">without reporting them</a>.
<p>
*Demand Justice renews calls for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/demand-justice-renews-calls-for-senate-investigation-into-supreme-court-justices-ties-to-far-right-donors">Senate investigation into Supreme
    Court justices' ties to far-right donors</a>.*
<p>
  *AOC Says Clarence Thomas <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-clarence-thomas-impeached">'Must Be Impeached'</a> Over 'Almost Cartoonish'
 Corruption.*
<p>
I agree he deserves to be removed from office, but it's useless to
try to achieve that by impeaching him, because the Supreme Court
is now thoroughly politicized &mdash; Republican senators won't remove
someone who is on their side.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Fines_for_poor_on_welfare)
title: Fines for poor on welfare
uri: Fines-for-poor-on-welfare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Fines_for_poor_on_welfare)
content:
 
<p>

The UK fines poor people who receive welfare benefits if they break
rules.  The aggregate effect is to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/06/benefit-sanctions-slow-peoples-progress-into-work-says-report-therese-coffey-suppressed">make it harder for them to find
    work</a> and push them into jobs with lower pay.

 


title: Win-win-win of Student Debt Cancellation
uri: Win-win-win-of-Student-Debt-Cancellation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Win-win-win_of_Student_Debt_Cancellation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Win-win-win_of_Student_Debt_Cancellation)

content:
 
<p>

  *The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/who-benefits-from-student-loan-cancellation">Win-Win-Win of Student Debt Cancellation</a>.*

 


title: Effect of corporations spending on elections
uri: Effect-of-corporations-spending-on-elections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Effect_of_corporations_spending_on_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Effect_of_corporations_spending_on_elections)

content:
 
<p>

How could a functioning democracy choose <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a> as president?
It didn't.  Ever since corporations were <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-s-indictment-a-wakeup-call-for-resurrecting-democracy">given the right to
    spend millions on elections</a>, they became dangerously powerful.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Women_with_PFAS_in_their_blood)
title: Women with PFAS in their blood
uri: Women-with-PFAS-in-their-blood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#9_April_2023_(Women_with_PFAS_in_their_blood)
content:
 
<p>

*Women who with higher levels of PFAS in their blood had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/06/forever-chemicals-infertility-women-pfas-blood">40% lower
    chance of conceiving</a> within a year of trying.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Battle_in_Gaza_provoked_by_attack)
title: Battle in Gaza provoked by attack
uri: Battle-in-Gaza-provoked-by-attack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Battle_in_Gaza_provoked_by_attack)
content:
 
<p>

  Israeli attacks on Muslim worshipers in al-Aqsa <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/06/israel-launches-airstrikes-in-gaza-strip-after-biggest-rocket-salvo-since-2006-war">provoked battle in Gaza</a>.
<p>
I'm sure the right-wing government could predict this -- such things
have happened many times &mdash; which implies it sought this.  I
conjecture that this is a plan to to manipulate Israelis to drop their
resistance to what the government really wants: to attack democracy in
Israel, permanently.

 


title: G20 countries spending on liquefied gas
uri: G20-countries-spending-on-liquefied-gas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(G20_countries_spending_on_liquefied_gas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(G20_countries_spending_on_liquefied_gas)

content:
 
<p>

G20 countries are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/glasgow-statement-financing-lng-terminals">spending big on constructing more liquefied gas
    exports</a>.
  The owners of these facilities will pay politicians to let
them continue to profit from them.

 


title: Tesla staff sharing videos from car cameras
uri: Tesla-staff-sharing-videos-from-car-cameras
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Tesla_staff_sharing_videos_from_car_cameras)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Tesla_staff_sharing_videos_from_car_cameras)

content:
 
<p>

Tesla cars record videos of activity inside the car, and company staff
can <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-shared-images-from-car-cameras-including-scenes-of-intimacy/">watch those recordings and copy them</a>.
 Or at least they were able to do so until last year.
<p>
They may have changed some security functions so that this is harder
to do.  But if Tesla can get those recordings, that is because it is
planning for some people to use them in some situation, and that is
unjust already.
<p>
It should be illegal to make a car that takes photos or videos
of the people in the car.  Or of people outside the car.

 


title: Ending capitalism to avoid climate collapse
uri: Ending-capitalism-to-avoid-climate-collapse
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Ending_capitalism_to_avoid_climate_collapse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Ending_capitalism_to_avoid_climate_collapse)

content:
 
<p>

  Mark Dunlea: <a href="http://gelfny.org/news-blog/avoiding-climate-collapse-requires-ending-capitalism/">*Avoiding climate collapse requires ending capitalism.*</a>
<p>
I hope he is mistaken, because ending capitalism entirely would imply
communism, which in practice has implied repression and terrible economic problems.
<p>
We have good societies with a great deal of socialism, but capitalism
persists as well.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Biden's_rejection_of_neoliberalism)
title: Biden's rejection of neoliberalism
uri: Biden-s-rejection-of-neoliberalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Biden's_rejection_of_neoliberalism)
content:
 
<p>

  Biden has <a href="https://prospect.org/economy/2023-03-28-what-comes-after-neoliberalism/">explicitly rejected neoliberalism</a> and the cult of the
invisible hand.
<p>
This is an important victory, though we need to advance further in
order to change all <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a> policies that squeeze wealth up to the
rich.
<p>
Nothing like this has occurred in the UK.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/apr/05/one-in-three-young-teachers-in-england-skipping-meals-to-make-ends-meet">*One in three young
    teachers in England skipping meals to make ends meet.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Cheater's_campaign_rally_in_Waco)
title: Cheater's campaign rally in Waco
uri: Cheater-s-campaign-rally-in-Waco
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Cheater's_campaign_rally_in_Waco)
content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#cheater">The cheater</a> held a campaign rally in Waco, but Waco officials
<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trumps-next-rally/">made him sign a contract</a> so strict that he won't be able
to avoid paying the costs.
<p>
For instance, it required him to pay in advance.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Democratic_Tennessee_legislators)
title: Democratic Tennessee legislators
uri: Democratic-Tennessee-legislators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Democratic_Tennessee_legislators)
content:
 
<p>

The two Democratic Tennessee legislators that Republicans <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/jones-unconstitutional-expulsion">expelled for
    joining a protest</a> in the legislature are planning to be appointed as
their own "replacements" &mdash; and then run to replace themselves
permanently.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Ohio_oil_and_gas_drilling)
title: Ohio oil and gas drilling
uri: Ohio-oil-and-gas-drilling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Ohio_oil_and_gas_drilling)
content:
 
<p>

*Green groups sue to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/07/ohio-environmental-groups-state-parks-leasing-oil-and-gas">stop Ohio from leasing state parks for oil and gas
    drilling</a>.*
<p>
A new Ohio law defines fossil fuel as "green".  We can call it a "liar
law", and it shows the dishonesty of Republicans.
<p>
The basis for the lawsuit is that the legislators disregarded
Ohio's constitutional rules for passing a law.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Biden's_Medicare_Advantage_reform)
title: Biden's Medicare Advantage reform
uri: Biden-s-Medicare-Advantage-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Biden's_Medicare_Advantage_reform)
content:
 
<p>

Biden has taken some steps to reform Medicare Advantage,
but didn't have the gumption to do enough to make the insurance
companies <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/medicare-advantage-biden">deal fairly with the public or the government</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Plastics_in_food_containers)
title: Plastics in food containers
uri: Plastics-in-food-containers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Plastics_in_food_containers)
content:
 
<p>

There is evidence that some of the plastics used in food containers
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/07/plastic-packaging-obesity-hormone-disruption">makes people tend to get fat</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Merger_of_two_US_railroads)
title: Merger of two US railroads
uri: Merger-of-two-US-railroads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Merger_of_two_US_railroads)
content:
 
<p>

The US Surface Transportation Board <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/railway-industry-merger-canadian-pacific">approved the merger of two
    of the very large railroads</a>.  This will hurt customers and workers
while benefiting (as usual) the owners.
<p>
Large companies, or companies that have more then 5% of a market
they operate in, should never be allowed to merge.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(High-tech_lie_detectors)
title: High-tech "lie detectors"
uri: High-tech-lie-detectors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(High-tech_lie_detectors)
content:
 
<p>

High-tech "lie detectors" are unreliable for the reason older ones
are: because they <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/04/07/lie-detector-dod-cia-converus/">are based on a simplistic model of how people
    behave</a>.

 


title: Keeping people in prisons based on algorithmic predictions
uri: Keeping-people-in-prisons-based-on-algorithmic-predictions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Keeping_people_in_prisons_based_on_algorithmic_predictions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Keeping_people_in_prisons_based_on_algorithmic_predictions)

content:
 
<p>

Australia's right-wing government is keeping people in prison based
on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/08/coalition-warned-of-problems-with-tool-to-predict-future-terrorist-but-continued-to-use-it-on-offenders">untrustworthy algorithmic predictions</a>.

 


title: Clarence Thomas' secret luxury trips
uri: Clarence-Thomas-secret-luxury-trips
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Clarence_Thomas'_secret_luxury_trips)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Clarence_Thomas'_secret_luxury_trips)

content:
 
<p>

  * "Please": <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/clarence-thomas-defense-luxury-trips">Critics Scoff</a> at Clarence Thomas' Defense of Secret Luxury Trips.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(US_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan)
title: US withdrawal from Afghanistan
uri: 2023-04-11-US-withdrawal-from-Afghanistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(US_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan)
content:
 
<p>

  The White House <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/06/white-house-blames-trump-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-chaos">blames decisions that the corrupter made</a>, that were
effectively impossible to reverse, for the chaos of the 2021 US
withdrawal from Afghanistan.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Ocean_surface_temperature)
title: Ocean surface temperature
uri: Ocean-surface-temperature
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Ocean_surface_temperature)
content:
 
<p>

*World’s ocean surface temperature <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/08/headed-off-the-charts-worlds-ocean-surface-temperature-hits-record-high">hits
    record high</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Ban_on_Mifepristone)
title: Ban on Mifepristone
uri: Ban-on-Mifepristone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Ban_on_Mifepristone)
content:
 
<p>

The biased Republican judge who was asked to ban Mifepristone <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/07/abortion-pill-ruling-explainer-mifepristone">went
    ahead and did it</a>.  The appeals court and the Supreme Court, both
Republican, are likely try uphold the ban.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Biden's_cave_to_insurence_industry)
title: Biden's cave to insurance industry
uri: Biden-s-cave-to-insurance-industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#10_April_2023_(Biden's_cave_to_insurence_industry)
content:
 
<p>

  *Jayapal <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/jayapal-medicare-advantage">Laments Biden's Cave to Insurance Industry</a> on Medicare Advantage.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Pressuring_prisoners_for_sex)
title: Pressuring prisoners for sex
uri: Pressuring-prisoners-for-sex
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Pressuring_prisoners_for_sex)
content:
 
<p>

Some of the prison <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> in US federal prisons make a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/06/federal-prison-sexual-abuse-deportation-california-mexico">practice of
    pressuring prisoners for sex</a>, especially prisoners who are not US
citizens and might be deported.  Those who testify about this are
often punished with deportation.
<p>
Officials have invented bureaucratic excuses to block the factual
investigation of accusations against prison <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.  Anyone who does
this should be charged with obstruction of justice.

 


title: Journalistic focus on unimportant details
uri: Journalistic-focus-on-unimportant-details
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Journalistic_focus_on_unimportant_details)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Journalistic_focus_on_unimportant_details)

content:
 
<p>

The practical details of the legal procedings against <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>
are unimportant.  When journalists dwell on those, they are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/06/media-coverage-trump-arrest-2016-repeat">playing
    into the hands of his attack on US democracy</a>.
<p>
One thing you can help do about this, if you watch TV, is to change
the channel (or turn it off) as soon as it focuses on the antics
of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a>.  The details they focus on are not important.
The importance is in the bullshit campaign overall, and you already
know the important thing about that.

 


title: Medicare Advantage insurers overcharging
uri: Medicare-Advantage-insurers-overcharging
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Medicare_Advantage_insurers_overcharging)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Medicare_Advantage_insurers_overcharging)

content:
 
<p>

  Biden decided to allow Medicare Advantage insurers to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-medicare-advantage-reforms">keep overcharging</a>
the US government more or less for three more years.

 


title: Legislation to ban facial recognition
uri: Legislation-to-ban-facial-recognition
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Legislation_to_ban_facial_recognition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Legislation_to_ban_facial_recognition)

content:
 
<p>

*Markey, Merkley, Jayapal Lead Colleagues on <a href="https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/markey-merkley-jayapal-lead-colleagues-on-legislation-to-ban-government-use-of-facial-recognition-and-other-biometric-technology">Legislation to Ban Government Use
    of Facial Recognition</a> and Other Biometric Technology.*
<p>
I support passing this law, but it does not go far enough.  Nongovernmental
operation of systems for <a href="https://www.stallman.org/notes/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Stopping_Clearview_AI)">facial recognition</a>
                                            (and other 1984 surveillance
systems) is <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">equally dangerous</a>
   and we need to put an end to that too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Stop_order_on_fact-checking)
title: Stop order on fact-checking
uri: Stop-order-on-fact-checking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Stop_order_on_fact-checking)
content:
 
<p>

In 2020, shortly after the election, the CEO of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#faux">Faux News</a> ordered that
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2023/03/30/fox-news-ceo-said-fact-checking-has-to-stop-now-because-it-is-bad-for-business.html">fact-checking "has to stop now"</a> because it is "bad for business".

 


title: Washington State judge on mifepristone
uri: Washington-State-judge-on-mifepristone
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Washington_State_judge_on_mifepristone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Washington_State_judge_on_mifepristone)

content:
 
<p>

While a right-wing judge in Texas ruled that the FDA's approval of
mifepristone must be cancelled, another judge in Washington State
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/texas-abortion-pill-mifepristone-ruling/h_7127193ba1d7e036a953943210300088">ruled that it must continue</a>.
<p>
It is possible the drug may be authorized in 18 states and not in the other 32.

 


title: Israelis see Natanyahu as security threat
uri: Israelis-see-Natanyahu-as-security-threat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Israelis_see_Natanyahu_as_security_threat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Israelis_see_Natanyahu_as_security_threat)

content:
 
<p>

Israelis are coming to regard Prime Minister Netanyahu and his
right-wing coalition as a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/09/discord-in-israel-threatens-benjamin-netanyahus-hold-on-power">security threat</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Murder_of_black_protester)
title: Murder of black protester
uri: Murder-of-black-protester
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Murder_of_black_protester)
content:
 
<p>

A white Texan has been convicted of murdering a black protester.
Governor Abbott <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/greg-abbott-daniel-perry">wants to pardon him</a>.
<p>
Abbott is, in effect, advocating lynching.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Afghanistan_women_in_the_UN)
title: Afghanistan women in the UN
uri: Afghanistan-women-in-the-UN
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Afghanistan_women_in_the_UN)
content:
 
<p>

The Taliban told the UN that it would not allow Afghan women to do work
for the UN in Afghanistan.  The UN <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/11/un-afghan-staff-stay-home-taliban-ban-female-workers">told its male Afghan workers to stay home</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Tories_taking_back_promise)
title: Tories taking back promise
uri: Tories-taking-back-promise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Tories_taking_back_promise)
content:
 
<p>

The Tories promised to change some of the policies that have forced
into penury people who moved from Jamaica to Britain as children with
their parents and didn't have the documents to prove they had done so.
Now they are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/06/civil-rights-group-beo-seeks-judicial-review-over-windrush-promises">planning to take back the promise</a>.

 


title: Anti-abortion movement wants national ban
uri: Anti-abortion-movement-wants-national-ban
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Anti-abortion_movement_wants_national_ban)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Anti-abortion_movement_wants_national_ban)

content:
 
<p>

*   It doesn’t matter if you think abortion will be legal where you live –-
the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/11/american-women-wake-up-call-mifepristone-kacsmaryk-abortion">anti-abortion movement wants a national ban</a>.*

 


title: Chances of corrupter being elected again
uri: Chances-of-corrupter-being-elected-again
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Chances_of_corrupter_being_elected_again)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Chances_of_corrupter_being_elected_again)

content:
 
<p>

Arguing that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter's</a> arrest <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/11/trump-arrest-republican-nomination-2024-independents">hurt his chances of being elected
    president again</a>.
<p>
It depends mainly on how much Republicans get away with cheating.

 


title: Republican lawmakers' obsession with sex
uri: Republican-lawmakers-obsession-with-sex
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Republican_lawmakers'_obsession_with_sex)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Republican_lawmakers'_obsession_with_sex)

content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-are-republicans-so-obsessed-about">Why Republican lawmakers are obsessed about sex</a> [and oppression based
 on anything about sex]*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Stockpiling_abortion_drugs)
title: Stockpiling abortion drugs
uri: Stockpiling-abortion-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Stockpiling_abortion_drugs)
content:
 
<p>

  *[Progressive] governors <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/11/democratic-governors-stockpile-abortion-drugs">stockpile abortion drugs</a> as access is
threatened.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Outcry_over_lengthy_jail_terms)
title: Outcry over lengthy jail terms
uri: Outcry-over-lengthy-jail-terms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Outcry_over_lengthy_jail_terms)
content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/11/outcry-over-lengthy-jail-terms-handed-to-china-human-rights-lawyers">Outcry over lengthy jail terms</a> handed to China human rights lawyers.*

 


title: Australian officials call to drop charges against Assange
uri: Australian-officials-call-to-drop-charges-against-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Australian_officials_call_to_drop_charges_against_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Australian_officials_call_to_drop_charges_against_Assange)

content:
 
<p>

48 Australian federal elected officials called on the US to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/11/julian-assange-australian-politicians-urge-merrick-garland-united-states-us-attorney-general-to-abandon-extradition">drop
    charges against Julian Assange</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Australia's_economic_growth)
title: Australia's economic growth
uri: Australia-s-economic-growth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Australia's_economic_growth)
content:
 
<p>

In Australia from 2009 to 2019, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/11/australias-richest-captured-93-of-economic-growth-between-2009-financial-crisis-and-covid-paper-shows">wealthiest 10% received 93% of the
    economic growth</a>.
  That's plutocracy for you.

 


title: Tennessee state representative reinstated
uri: Tennessee-state-representative-reinstated
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Tennessee_state_representative_reinstated)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Tennessee_state_representative_reinstated)

content:
 
<p>

Of the two progressive Tennessee state representatives expelled by
Republicans, one has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/justin-jones-pearson-tennessee-republicans">already been reinstated by his district</a>, and the
other is on the way to being reinstated.

 


title: Urgent: Legal right to ask for asylum
uri: Urgent-Legal-right-to-ask-for-asylum
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Urgent:_Legal_right_to_ask_for_asylum)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Urgent:_Legal_right_to_ask_for_asylum)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://action.aclu.org/petition/tell-biden-seeking-asylum-legal-right">respect the legal right to ask for asylum</a>
inside the US.
<p>
Requiring asylum-seekers to run a nonfree program on top of that not
only fails to excuse the policy, it is an additional separate
injustice.  Governments must never require people to run a nonfree
program.

 


title: Urgent: Investments to promote decarbonization and economic equality
uri: Urgent-Investments-to-promote-decarbonization-and-economic-equality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Urgent:_Investments_to_promote_decarbonization_and_economic_equality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Urgent:_Investments_to_promote_decarbonization_and_economic_equality)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the World Bank's new president, Ajay Banga, to
<a href="https://act.350.org/sign/clean_energy_now_reform_world_bank/">redirect its investments to promote decarbonization and economic equality</a>.

 


title: Sea-level rise accelerated in southern US
uri: Sea-level-rise-accelerated-in-southern-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Sea-level_rise_accelerated_in_southern_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Sea-level_rise_accelerated_in_southern_US)

content:
 
<p>

  Sea-level rise in the southern US has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/sea-level-rise-and-hurricanes">accelerated</a>.  Since 2010 it is
rising more than a centimeter per year.
<p>
*A home purchased today in Pensacola will be underwater before the
 mortgage is paid off. This is so scary.*
<p>
This augments the damage done by hurricanes, but I think the sea-level
rise itself will do more damage, because it is cumulative.  Your
locality may go 50 years without a hurricane, but it won't go 50 years
magically skipped by sea-level rise.

 


title: Treating fire-fighting like ambulances
uri: Treating-fire-fighting-like-ambulances
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Treating_fire-fighting_like_ambulances)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Treating_fire-fighting_like_ambulances)

content:
 
<p>

Imagine how horrible it would be if we treated fire-fighting like
ambulances, making people pay for fire-fighting service.
<p>
Then turn this around to see the arguments for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/free-ambulances-for-all">handling ambulances
    like firefighting</a> &mdash; a public service provided at little or no charge.

 


title: Suing EPA for approving plastic-recycling plant
uri: Suing-EPA-for-approving-plastic-recycling-plant
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Suing_EPA_for_approving_plastic-recycling_plant)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Suing_EPA_for_approving_plastic-recycling_plant)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/11/epa-plastic-based-fuel-cancer-risk-approval-questions">Suing the EPA for approving a plastic-recycling plant</a> that would cause a 1-in-4
risk of cancer for people who live nearby.
<p>
The risk of cancer will inevitably extend, though with decreasing
probability, to people who live somewhat farther away.  I wonder at
what distance that risk will decrease to an acceptable amount.
100 miles?  1000 miles east?
<p>
The report is vague, and represents estimates.  I can't be sure from this
report how much danger there would really be.  Perhaps Chevron can demonstrate
that the actual danger is far less.  But we should insist that it do so
by publishing measurements and analyses.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Water_use_in_arid_land_cities)
title: Water use in arid land cities
uri: Water-use-in-arid-land-cities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Water_use_in_arid_land_cities)
content:
 
<p>

In an arid land city, a rich person can use <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/10/swimming-pools-rich-driving-city-water-crises">almost ten times as much
    water</a> as a poor person.
  Cities head towards a water shortage should
strictly limit water consumption by the rich years before what they
would call a "crisis".
<p>
Private wells also deplete the same ground water that makes up the
last resort for the region.  They should be strictly regulated.
<p>
By contrast, building private desalinization plants run by renewable
energy should be encouraged, because they increase the total water
resources available to the region and don't take it away from anyone
else.

 


title: Jamming Ukraine's drone communications
uri: Jamming-Ukraine-s-drone-communications
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Jamming_Ukraine's_drone_communications)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Jamming_Ukraine's_drone_communications)

content:
 
<p>

The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> are making advances in their capability to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/10/in-war-there-are-no-emotions-ukraine-drone-squads-bakhmut">jam
    communication</a> with Ukraine's most common kind of drone.  In a few
months they may be entirely useless.

 


title: Growing up poor and white in rural America
uri: Growing-up-poor-and-white-in-rural-America
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Growing_up_poor_and_white_in_rural_America)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Growing_up_poor_and_white_in_rural_America)

content:
 
<p>

  What it's like to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/10/the-forgotten-girls-by-monica-potts-review-a-quietly-raging-lament-for-wasted-lives-in-21st-century-america">grow up poor and white in rural America</a>.
<p>
I'd be interested in seeing how this compares to growing up poor and black in
those places.  Racism surely continues its dirty work.

 


title: Supermajaroites enable crushing democracy
uri: Supermajaroites-enable-crushing-democracy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Supermajaroites_enable_crushing_democracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Supermajaroites_enable_crushing_democracy)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-supermajorities">Supermajorities enable parties to crush democracy</a>, as
Republican parties are doing now in several states.
<p>
But these supermarjorities did not happen naturally.  They result
Republican measures to rig elections &mdash; <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#31_October_2022_(Republicans_propose_federal_laws_to_make_voting_more_difficult)">voter suppression</a>
<p>
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#20_November_2021_(Gerrymandering)">gerrymandering</a>.

 


title: Disregarding decision to remove mifepristone
uri: Disregarding-decision-to-remove-mifepristone
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Disregarding_decision_to_remove_mifepristone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Disregarding_decision_to_remove_mifepristone)

content:
 
<p>

  AOC argues that the US government can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/09/aoc-urges-biden-ignore-texas-abortion-pills-ruling">disregard the court decision</a>
that purports to remove the FDA authorization of mifepristone.

 


title: How FDA should respond to courts on abortion medicines
uri: How-FDA-should-respond-to-courts-on-abortion-medicines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(How_FDA_should_respond_to_courts_on_abortion_medicines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(How_FDA_should_respond_to_courts_on_abortion_medicines)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/12/to-protect-abortion-access-the-fda-should-decline-to-enforce-a-mifepristone-ban">Recommending how the FDA should respond</a> to the two conflicting federal
court decisions about abortion medicines.

 


title: Republicans want to cut SNAP benefits
uri: Republicans-want-to-cut-SNAP-benefits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Republicans_want_to_cut_SNAP_benefits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Republicans_want_to_cut_SNAP_benefits)

content:
 
<p>

Republicans want to cut SNAP benefits for disabled Americans who can't
find jobs.  They cite Clinton's 1996 "welfare reform" law as an
example to follow, which shows the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-push-work-requirements">cruelty of their intentions</a>.

 


title: Clarence Thomas pushed to kill disclosure laws
uri: Clarence-Thomas-pushed-to-kill-disclosure-laws
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Clarence_Thomas_pushed_to_kill_disclosure_laws)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Clarence_Thomas_pushed_to_kill_disclosure_laws)

content:
 
<p>

  *[Clarence] Thomas <a href="https://www.levernews.com/r/336de77e?m=a1296444-4385-46f7-b56f-c5acabd34844">Pushed To Kill Disclosure Laws</a> While Getting Secret
Billionaire Gifts.*

 


title: Why British government behaves bizarrely
uri: Why-British-government-behaves-bizarrely
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Why_British_government_behaves_bizarrely)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Why_British_government_behaves_bizarrely)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/12/how-westminster-works-and-why-it-doesnt-by-ian-dunt-review-a-savage-indictment-of-the-status-quo">Why the British government bureaucracy behaves bizarrely</a> and
ineffectively: it is in the grip of an ideology that makes mistaken
assumptions about how to do any job.

 


title: Infestation of grey squirrels in England
uri: Infestation-of-grey-squirrels-in-England
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Infestation_of_grey_squirrels_in_England)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(Infestation_of_grey_squirrels_in_England)

content:
 
<p>

  England has an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/12/the-secret-lives-of-grey-squirrels-the-telly-was-off-the-wall-plates-were-smashed-furniture-was-ripped">infestation of grey squirrels</a>, and they do lots of
damage.  It is important to kill them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_((satire)_Struggling_to_conceive)
title: (satire) Struggling to conceive
uri: (satire)-Struggling-to-conceive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_((satire)_Struggling_to_conceive)
content:
 
<p>

  (satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/couple-struggling-to-conceive-considers-trying-sexual-i-1850289600">*Couple Struggling To Conceive Considers Trying Sexual Intercourse.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(How_to_send_broken_links)
title: How to send broken links
uri: How-to-send-broken-links
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#13_April_2023_(How_to_send_broken_links)
content:
 
<p>

I appreciate reporting broken links in stallman.org.  To make the
reports useful, please send each broken link in a separate email.  The
email should contain

<ol type="1">
  <li>The full name of the page which contains the broken link.</li>
  <li>The URL that the broken link tries to link to.</li>
  <li>Around 8 lines of text which contains the broken link.</li>
</ol>
Please send that email to me, and I will forward it to the team.
<p>
Please don't send more than 4 per day!  I can easily get overloaded
and have a backlog.
<p>
Thanks.

 


title: Israelis see Netanyahu as security threat
uri: Israelis-see-Netanyahu-as-security-threat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Israelis_see_Netanyahu_as_security_threat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_April_2023_(Israelis_see_Netanyahu_as_security_threat)

content:
 
<p>

Israelis are coming to regard Prime Minister Netanyahu and his
right-wing coalition as a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/09/discord-in-israel-threatens-benjamin-netanyahus-hold-on-power">security threat</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Protect access to Mifepristone
uri: Urgent-Protect-access-to-Mifepristone
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_access_to_Mifepristone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_access_to_Mifepristone)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the FDA to use emergency powers to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-fda-use-all-available-emergency-powers-to-protect-access-to-mifepristone-now">protect access
    to  Mifepristone</a>.

 


title: Daniel Ellsberg campaigning for peace and disarmament
uri: Daniel-Ellsberg-campaigning-for-peace-and-disarmament
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Daniel_Ellsberg_campaigning_for_peace_and_disarmament)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Daniel_Ellsberg_campaigning_for_peace_and_disarmament)

content:
 
<p>

Daniel Ellsberg is dying, but he won't let that hold him back from <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/daniel-ellsberg-courage">campaigning
    for peace and disarmament</a>.

 


title: Manhattan DA sues Republican Jim Jordan
uri: Manhattan-DA-sues-Republican-Jim-Jordan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Manhattan_DA_sues_Republican_Jim_Jordan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Manhattan_DA_sues_Republican_Jim_Jordan)

content:
 
<p>

*Manhattan DA who indicted Trump <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/11/alvin-bragg-sues-republican-jim-jordan-trump-case-interference">sues Republican Jim Jordan over
    interference in case</a>.*
<p>
The interference consists of demanding to subpoena one of the DA's
investigators, trying to find something to accuse him of.
<p>
I don't understand the legal issues enough to know whether there was
any actual wrongdoing, but in general no one is more likely to lie than
a Republican official.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Security_cameras_in_Ukraine)
title: Security cameras in Ukraine
uri: Security-cameras-in-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Security_cameras_in_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>

Coffee shops in Ukraine have "security cameras" that should better be
called "insecurity cameras", because Russian crackers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/11/russian-hackers-target-security-cameras-inside-ukraine-coffee-shops">broke their
    security</a> in order to snoop on Ukrainian convoys.
<p>
Any store that takes pictures of its customers and puts them on a
network in real time <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">is making its customers vulnerable</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Rutgers_faculty_on_strike)
title: Rutgers faculty on strike
uri: Rutgers-faculty-on-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Rutgers_faculty_on_strike)
content:
 
<p>

  Rutgers faculty are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/rutgers-faculty-strike">on strike to call for a raise</a> for all the kinds
of teachers at the school.

 


title: Republican billionaire trying to buy elections
uri: Republican-billionaire-trying-to-buy-elections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Republican_billionaire_trying_to_buy_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Republican_billionaire_trying_to_buy_elections)

content:
 
<p>

  A billionaire Republican hedge-fund founder <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/11/harvard-republican-donor-kenneth-griffin">tries to buy elections</a>,
and perhaps has succeeded.  He did succeed in buying the naming rights
of Harvard's general graduate school.
<p>
I expect the students and faculty will have their say now, and I hope
their condemnation of that Republican will live longer than he does.
<p>
When the MIT AI Lab moved to the Stata Center, and I discovered that one
of the two towers was named Bill Gates, I urged people to refuse
to call it by that name.  I suggested Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul,
but people settled on the innocuous "D Tower" and "G Tower".
<p>
I also made a practice of formally saluting the sign that says "Bill
Gates", near the outside door of the G tower, with my middle finger.
<p>
Methods like this can certainly be used against another billionaire donor
who has harmed people's freedom.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Climate_emergency_crisis)
title: Climate emergency crisis
uri: Climate-emergency-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Climate_emergency_crisis)
content:
 
<p>

  *Climate emergency is the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/10/climate-emergency-is-the-biggest-health-crisis-of-our-time-bigger-than-covid">biggest health crisis of our time</a> &mdash; bigger
than Covid.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Benjamin_Ferencz)
title: Benjamin Ferencz
uri: Benjamin-Ferencz
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Benjamin_Ferencz)
content:
 
<p>

Benjamin Ferencz was one of the prosecutors in the Nuremberg war
crimes trials, after investigating Nazi concentration camps in the US
Army.  His obituaries do not mention that <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/04/12/ben-ferencz-obituary-iraq-war/">he called for prosecution
    of Dubya and some of his ministers</a>.

 


title: Governor DeMentis worked at Guantanamo
uri: Governor-DeMentis-worked-at-Guantanamo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Governor_DeMentis_worked_at_Guantanamo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Governor_DeMentis_worked_at_Guantanamo)

content:
 
<p>

Governor <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a> worked at Guantanamo prison, and was given the task
of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/ron-desantis-mansoor-adafyi-torture">interviewing prisoners who were going to be force-fed</a>.
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a> still claims that the prisoners they tortured were "terrorists",
though hardly any of them can be connected to terrorism.

 


title: Affordability of Social Security Expansion
uri: Affordability-of-Social-Security-Expansion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Affordability_of_Social_Security_Expansion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Affordability_of_Social_Security_Expansion)

content:
 
<p>

  *Report Shows <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/report-shows-social-security-expansion-is-affordable">Social Security Expansion is Affordable</a>.*

 


title: Members of US Congress call for dropping charges against Assange
uri: Members-of-US-Congress-call-for-dropping-charges-against-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Members_of_US_Congress_call_for_dropping_charges_against_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Members_of_US_Congress_call_for_dropping_charges_against_Assange)

content:
 
<p>

Some members of the US Congress called on Attorney General Garland
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/tlaib-assange-garland-drop-charges">drop charges against Julian Assange</a>.
<p>
They were led by Rep. Rashida Tlaib.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Extraction_of_methane_for_fuel)
title: Extraction of methane for fuel
uri: Extraction-of-methane-for-fuel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Extraction_of_methane_for_fuel)
content:
 
<p>

The Group of 7 wealthiest countries are converging on a policy
of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/lng-g7-summit-japan">increasing extraction of methane for fuel</a>.  This will speed up
climate disaster.
<p>
  Activists are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/100-organizations-urge-biden-administration-to-stop-g7-push-for-lng-expansion">calling on Biden to stop this</a>.
  Biden is not the most steadfast and reliable of champions for
climate defense.  The sad thing is that there is no one else to appeal
to.

 


title: Rules on fossil fuel consumption of future vehicles
uri: Rules-on-fossil-fuel-consumption-of-future-vehicles
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Rules_on_fossil_fuel_consumption_of_future_vehicles)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Rules_on_fossil_fuel_consumption_of_future_vehicles)

content:
 
<p>

Biden's new rules for fossil fuel consumption of future cars and trucks
are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-electric-vehicle-push">inadequate to prevent them from causing climate disaster</a>.

 


title: Australia eliminated use of private debt collectors
uri: Australia-eliminated-use-of-private-debt-collectors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Australia_eliminated_use_of_private_debt_collectors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Australia_eliminated_use_of_private_debt_collectors)

content:
 
<p>

  The Australian government has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/13/albanese-government-axing-external-debt-collectors-in-bid-to-prevent-another-robodebt">eliminated use of private debt collectors</a>
  to prevent repetitious of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jan-apr.html#20_April_2019_(Clawing_money_from_welfare_recipients)">cruel abuses</a> set up by the previous
right-wing government by means of them.

 


title: DeMentis efforts to remove black representative
uri: DeMentis-efforts-to-remove-black-representative
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(DeMentis_efforts_to_remove_black_representative)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(DeMentis_efforts_to_remove_black_representative)

content:
 
<p>

Governor <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a> went to enormous lengths to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/12/ron-desantis-voting-rights-black-voters-florida-gerrymander">eliminate the state's
    one black congressional representative</a>, by gerrymandering and intimidation
of voters at many levels.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Los_Angeles_suing_journalist)
title: Los Angeles suing journalist
uri: Los-Angeles-suing-journalist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#14_April_2023_(Los_Angeles_suing_journalist)
content:
 
<p>

Los Angeles released information to journalist Ben Camacho for a public
records request.  Now the city is <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/04/11/los-angeles-lawsuit-lapd-headshots/">suing him for publishing it</a>.

 


title: IMF loans' stipulations
uri: IMF-loans-stipulations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(IMF_loans'_social_spending_stipulations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(IMF_loans'_social_spending_stipulations)

content:
 
<p>
*Oxfam Report Highlights Deep Harms of
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/oxfam-imf-austerity-poor-nations">IMF 'Austerity Drive' in Poor Nations</a>.*
<p>
The IMF has been bashing poor countries for decades.  Behind the scenes,
that's its mission: to help big companies extract their wealth.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_voter_suppression)
title: Urgent: Stop voter suppression
uri: Urgent-Stop-voter-suppression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_voter_suppression)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-your-name-say-no-to-anti-voter-laws?nowrapper=true">say no to anti-voter laws</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Anti-immigration_crackdown,_FL)
title: Anti-immigration crackdown, FL
uri: Anti-immigration-crackdown-FL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Anti-immigration_crackdown,_FL)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a> threatens to imprison anyone in Florida who gives
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/desantis-immigration-bill">transportation, shelter or work</a>
to an unauthorized immigrant.
<p>
Punishing people for not participating in some sort of repression is a
standard fascist tactic, and you can gauge how fascist a party is by
whether it has recourse to that.  The Republican Party has turned
thoroughly fascist, but Democrats have supported fascist policies in
the area of immigration.
<p>
There has been a law since the 1990s under which employers could not
avoid demanding employees show government ID to prove they are authorized
to work in the US.  This imposition of government control and
surveillance over life makes me boil.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Societal_value_of_a_doctor)
title: Societal value of a doctor
uri: Societal-value-of-a-doctor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Societal_value_of_a_doctor)
content:
 
<p>
* Because [the UK doesn't] pay doctors enough,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/11/junior-doctors-strike-pay-nhs-corridors">there are too few of us</a>.
It's all we can do to stop people dying in NHS waiting rooms*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Medicaid_for_DACA_people)
title: Medicaid for DACA people
uri: Medicaid-for-DACA-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Medicaid_for_DACA_people)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/13/biden-expands-health-coverage-daca-immigrants-dreamers">Biden aims to extend Medicaid</a>
to cover the DACA people, who were brought to the US as children.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Oil_Cos._deceptive_financing)
title: Oil Cos. deceptive financing
uri: Oil-Cos-deceptive-financing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Oil_Cos._deceptive_financing)
content:
 
<p>
*World's 60 Largest Banks Have Dumped
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-banks-funding-fossil-fuels-since-paris">$5.5 Trillion Into Fossil Fuels</a>
Since Paris Accord.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Secrets_leak,_U.S.)
title: Secrets leak, U.S.
uri: Secrets-leak-U-S
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Secrets_leak,_U.S.)
content:
 
<p>
*Sky Not Falling: U.S. Government Again
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/04/13/pentagon-classified-documents-leak/">Exaggerates Damage From Leaks</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Protect access to Mifepristone
uri: 2023-04-15-Urgent-Protect-access-to-Mifepristone
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_access_to_Mifepristone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_access_to_Mifepristone)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the FDA to use emergency powers to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-fda-use-all-available-emergency-powers-to-protect-access-to-mifepristone-now">protect access to  Mifepristone</a>.

 


title: Daniel Ellsberg campaigning for peace and disarmament
uri: 2023-04-15-Daniel-Ellsberg-campaigning-for-peace-and-disarmament
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Daniel_Ellsberg_campaigning_for_peace_and_disarmament)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Daniel_Ellsberg_campaigning_for_peace_and_disarmament)

content:
 
<p>

Daniel Ellsberg is dying, but he won't let that hold him back from <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/daniel-ellsberg-courage">campaigning
    for peace and disarmament</a>.

 


title: Manhattan DA sues Republican Jim Jordan
uri: 2023-04-15-Manhattan-DA-sues-Republican-Jim-Jordan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Manhattan_DA_sues_Republican_Jim_Jordan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#15_April_2023_(Manhattan_DA_sues_Republican_Jim_Jordan)

content:
 
<p>

*Manhattan DA who indicted Trump <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/11/alvin-bragg-sues-republican-jim-jordan-trump-case-interference">sues Republican Jim Jordan over
    interference in case</a>.*
<p>
The interference consists of demanding to subpoena one of the DA's
investigators, trying to find something to accuse him of.
<p>
I don't understand the legal issues enough to know whether there was
any actual wrongdoing, but in general no one is more likely to lie than
a Republican official.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#16_April_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_Uinta_Basin_railway)
title: Urgent: Stop Uinta Basin railway
uri: Urgent-Stop-Uinta-Basin-railway
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#16_April_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_Uinta_Basin_railway)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Secretary Buttigieg to <a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=54116">stop the Uinta Basin
    railway</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Technical request related to Javascript
uri: Urgent-Technical-request-related-to-Javascript
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#16_April_2023_(Urgent:_Technical_request_related_to_Javascript)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#16_April_2023_(Urgent:_Technical_request_related_to_Javascript)

content:
 
<p>

This is a request for a small technical project for someone who knows
Javascript.
<p>
Boston public transit has changed its web site, mbta.com, so that it
is impossible to access bus schedules without running nonfree
software.  It used to have a "PDF Schedule" button with which you
could download a bus line's schedule.  But that no longer works.
<p>
For instance, the page for bus line 1, mbta.com/schedules/1/line, has
a button "Get schedules", but without enabling Javascript that gives
an error.
<p>
Can someone please develop a script or method to access these PDF
files?  It could be a simple shell script that uses wget, grep and awk,
or simple Javascript program if you can tell me how to run it.
Please give it clear comments so I can understand what it does,
and if it is more than 8 lines or so put a free license on it.
<p>
I will appreciate your work every time I look at a bus schedule.

 


